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1918–2006 United States
Frank Morrison Spillane (9 March 1918 –17 July 2006), more commonly known as Mickey Spillane, was an American crime novelist, famous for his series of novels featuring his signature detective character, Mike Hammer, among other works.
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Those big-shot writers … could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.
The Making of a Bestseller: From Author to Reader (1999)
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.
We brought a man back who should have died long ago. The present can't stand a man like that anymore. Now they want indecision and compromise and reluctance and fear.
The Snake (1964)
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.
I don't care what the editor likes or dislikes, I care what the people like.
Crime Time interview (2001)
Then, suddenly, you're there, outside a dark-faced building, a brownstone anachronism that stares back dully with the defiant expression of the moronic and you have an impending sense of being challenged
I was the first one probably in writing to use a nickname, Mickey, and it stuck.
Crime Time interview (2001)
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.
Crime Time interview (2001)
I don't research anything. If I need something, I'll invent it.
Crime Time interview (2001)
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.
Crime Time interview (2001)
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.
Crime Time interview (2001)
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