71 Quotes by Mickey Spillane

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.

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.

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.

But at my age, you start to get tired.

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.

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

If the public likes you, you're good.

No one likes my books except the public.

Mike Hammer drinks beer because I can't spell Cognac.