If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.
- Mickey Spillane
Voice, Singer, More, Baseball Player
I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.
- Mickey Spillane
Level, Use, High Level, Downhill
I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.
- Mickey Spillane
Hollywood, Awful Lot, Hollywood People
Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.
- Mickey Spillane
Famous, Comic Books, Became, Stan
Imagine this guy hits Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger and knocks him out. You hit Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger, he'll beat the crap out of you.
- Mickey Spillane
Hammer, Over, Imagine, Wooden
I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there.
- Mickey Spillane
Country, Use, About, Base
Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.
- Mickey Spillane
Still, Mine, Sold, Grain
Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.
- Mickey Spillane
Want, Names, Chimney, Authors
I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
- Mickey Spillane
She, Commercial, One Book, Margaret
I'm 82 years old, wherever I go everybody knows me, but here's why... I'm a merchandiser, I'm not just a writer, I stay in every avenue you can think of.
- Mickey Spillane
Think, Here, Everybody, Wherever
My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.
- Mickey Spillane
Father, Always, Dad, Catholic
Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.
- Mickey Spillane
Past, Hurricane, Hugo, Survived
Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.
- Mickey Spillane
News, Big, Bad, Victor
See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.
- Mickey Spillane
Die, John Wayne, Otherwise, Wayne
Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.
- Mickey Spillane
Me, Critics, Themselves, Tear
I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.
- Mickey Spillane
Original, Hammer, Mike, Comic
I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.
- Mickey Spillane
Ring, Movie, Pat, Beatty
If the public likes you, you're good.
- Mickey Spillane
Good, You, Public, Likes
Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.
- Mickey Spillane
Middle, Next, Read, Anymore
Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.
- Mickey Spillane
I Am, Now, Writer, Author
I try to stay in good physical shape, I don't smoke, I don't drink.
- Mickey Spillane
Try, Smoke, Shape, Drink
If I need something, I'll invent it.
- Mickey Spillane
Need, Something, Invent
Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.
- Mickey Spillane
King, Now, About, None
I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.
- Mickey Spillane
Books, Lot, Read, History Books
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