Mickey Spillane Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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.

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

Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.

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.

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.

Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.

I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.

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.

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.

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