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.
About Mickey Spillane
Frank Morrison Spillane ( March 9, 1918 – July 17, 2006), better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American crime novelist, called the “king of pulp fiction”. His stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer.
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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.
American writer (1918-2006)
I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O’Brien.
American writer (1918-2006)
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.
American writer (1918-2006)
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.
American writer (1918-2006)
Now I’m not an author, I’m a writer, that’s all I am.
American writer (1918-2006)
Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.
American writer (1918-2006)
I read all the time… I read a lot of history books.
American writer (1918-2006)
Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn’t get past Hugo.
American writer (1918-2006)
Stephen King. Now I’m not crazy about him, but he’s a great a writer.
American writer (1918-2006)
I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can’t understand it.
American writer (1918-2006)
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.
American writer (1918-2006)
If I need something, I’ll invent it.
American writer (1918-2006)
If the public likes you, you’re good.
American writer (1918-2006)
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.
American writer (1918-2006)
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.
American writer (1918-2006)
Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.
American writer (1918-2006)
I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.
American writer (1918-2006)
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.
American writer (1918-2006)
I dont like any of them, because they don’t read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his story. Anthony Quinn played in The Lond Wait and he didn’t read the book either.
American writer (1918-2006)
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.
American writer (1918-2006)
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.
American writer (1918-2006)
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.
American writer (1918-2006)
Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.
American writer (1918-2006)
I’m a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
American writer (1918-2006)
I try to stay in good physical shape, I don’t smoke, I don’t drink.
American writer (1918-2006)