Mickey Spillane
Mickey Spillane
Frank Morrison Spillane, better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American crime novelist, whose stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally. Spillane was also an occasional actor, once even playing Hammer himself...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 March 1918
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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When I started the paperback market, there were only a few good writers, now the market's loaded... you don't know which one to take.
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But at my age, you start to get tired.
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Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.
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Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.
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I try to stay in good physical shape, I don't smoke, I don't drink.
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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.
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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.
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Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.
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I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.
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If the public likes you, you're good.
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No one likes my books except the public.
beer hammers cognac
Mike Hammer drinks beer because I can't spell Cognac.
hammers danger comic
I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.
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I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.