Top 24 Quotes by Mickey Spillane

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

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.

If the public likes you, you're good.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.