#w

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#ever #every #failure #i #movie

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. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#every #everybody #go #here #i

Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#get #hazel #house #hugo #hurricane

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

— Mickey Spillane

#chimney #coming #down #history #i

I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#hollywood #hollywood people #i #know #lot

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

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