#k

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

— Mickey Spillane

#danger #hammer #i #mike #original

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

— Mickey Spillane

#book #commercial #i #margaret #mitchell

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. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#back #base #boy #country #country boy

As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive. ↗

— Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

#deceptive #film #measure #skills #very

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

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #better #gets

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

#because #both #called #catholic #churches

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

#book #buy #end #first #get

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

#became #books #captain #captain america #comic

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

#die #elvis #get #hero #heroes

And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me! ↗

— Brent Spiner

#day #exactly #hope #i #i think