Mickey Spillane - Writer Quotes

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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.

Mickey Spillane

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

Mickey Spillane

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.

Mickey Spillane

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

Mickey Spillane

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

I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead...

Mickey Spillane

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.

Mickey Spillane

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.

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