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

Mickey Spillane

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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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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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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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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" Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. "

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