Best 29 quotes of Mickey Spillane on MyQuotes

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.

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.

I don't like people. I don't like any kind of people. When you get them together in a big lump they all get nasty and dirty and full of trouble. So I don't like people including you. That's what a misanthropist is.

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.

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.

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.

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.

I'm actually a softie. Tough guys get killed too early... I've got a full head of hair and don't wear eyeglasses.

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.

Inspiration is an empty bank account.

I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

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.

I try to stay in good physical shape, I don't smoke, I don't drink.

I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.

Mike Hammer drinks beer because I can't spell Cognac.

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.

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.

No one likes my books except the public.

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.

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.

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book.

Those big-shot writers ... could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.

Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.

Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.

Guys like you can't escape the city. Hell, you a got a blood contract with this place. You're married to the old girl.

He killed her and I made a mess of his head. Even the devil won't recognize him now.

Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.