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Mickey Spillane
American
Author
Born:
Mar 9
,
1918
Died:
Jul 17
,
2006
Am
Get
Good
Hammer
Me
You
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Zig Ziglar
Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.
Mickey Spillane
History
Down
Out
Names
Smoke
Coming
Authors
Want
Chimney
Keep
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.
Mickey Spillane
Buy
Book
First
Mystery
Nobody
Read
Reads
End
Sells
Get
Middle
Anymore
Next
Page
Your
Last
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
Me
You
Salt
Sold
Books
Mine
Hated
He
Stuff
Look
Most
Course
Still
Grain
Cents
Hemingway
Million
Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.
Mickey Spillane
Writer
Am
Author
Now
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.
Mickey Spillane
You
Hero
Heroes
Older
Otherwise
Elvis
Wayne
John
See
John Wayne
Never
Dead
Him
Get
Die
Why
Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.
Mickey Spillane
Smell
Past
Out
Hurricane
House
Am
Survived
Get
Hugo
Where
I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.
Mickey Spillane
Fear
Ring
Beatty
Pat
Movie
Played
I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.
Mickey Spillane
Danger
Wrote
Comic
Hammer
Mike
Original
If I need something, I'll invent it.
Mickey Spillane
Invent
Something
Need
Imagine this guy hits Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger and knocks him out. You hit Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger, he'll beat the crap out of you.
Mickey Spillane
You
Out
Guy
Beat
He
Head
Over
Knocks
Him
Hammer
Hit
Hits
Wooden
Crap
Mike
Imagine
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.
Mickey Spillane
Me
Mother
Father
Churches
Both
Names
Catholic
Because
Protestant
Always
Got
Dad
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.
Mickey Spillane
Writing
First
Books
Later
Guys
Marvel
Like
Wrote
Became
Comic
Comic Books
Yeah
Comics
Lee
America
Oh
Oh Yeah
Famous
Stan
Who
Captain
Captain America
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