Mickey Spillane

Nobody reads a book to get to the middle. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#writing-craft #writing-process #writing-process

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. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#obsession #new-york-city

Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#chimney #coming #down #history #i

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

#cents #course #grain #hated #hemingway

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

— Mickey Spillane

#hollywood #hollywood people #i #know #lot

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

— Mickey Spillane

#brien #called #fear #i #movie

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

#comics #downhill #further #high #high level

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

— Mickey Spillane

#history #history books #i #lot #read

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

— Mickey Spillane

#good #i #physical #shape #smoke

Critics themselves, they used to tear me up. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#me #tear #themselves #up #used