Mickey Spillane Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

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

  Mickey Spillane

  Literature, Earth, Likes

  "W.O.W.: Writers on Writing". Book by Jon Winokur, 1986.

• 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

  Book, Grain Of Salt, Looks

  Interview with Michael Carlson, "Crime Time", 2001.

• Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.

  Mickey Spillane

  Kings, Crazy, Literature

• 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

  Names, House, Magazines

  Interview with Michael Carlson, Crime Time, 2001.

• 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.

  Mickey Spillane

  Book, Kissing, Waiting

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

  Mickey Spillane

  News, Literature, Bigs

• 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

  Mother, Dad, Father

• 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

  Guy, Hammers, Literature

• 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

  Hero, Redneck, Firefighter

  Interview with Michael Carlson, "Crime Time", crimetime.co.uk, 2001.

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

  Mickey Spillane

  Book, Literature, History Books

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

  Mickey Spillane

  Hammers, Literature, Comic

  Interview with Michael Carlson, "Crime Time", 2001.

• I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.

  Mickey Spillane

  Self, People, Important

  Interview with Michael Carlson, Crime Time, 2001.

• If I need something, I'll invent it.

  Mickey Spillane

  Needs, Literature, Ifs

  Interview with Michael Carlson, Crime Time, 2001.

• 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

  Thinking, Years, Literature

  Interview with Michael Carlson, Crime Time, 2001.

• 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, New York, Hate

  Interview with Michael Carlson, "Crime Time", 2001.

• 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

  Book, Writing, Literature

  "Writers on writing". Book by Jon Winokur, 1986.

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