Top 24 Quotes by Mickey Spillane

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.

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.

If the public likes you, you're good.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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