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
book looks stuff
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.
book history-books
I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.
tears used critics
Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.
book lasts next
The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book.
book writing pages
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 any more. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.
baseball writing player
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.
hero redneck firefighter
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.
book kissing waiting
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.
names want coming-out
I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.
guy hammers literature
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.
thinking years every-avenue
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.
book
I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
eyeglasses hair guy
I'm actually a softie. Tough guys get killed too early... I've got a full head of hair and don't wear eyeglasses.
country new-york hate
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.