"Those big-shot writers ... could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar."

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Source : "The Making of a Bestseller: From Author to Reader" by Arthur T. Vanderbilt, (p. 135), 1999.

Mickey Spillane

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“That's our plan? We're going to walk fifty kilometers, right past the Germans, to a poultry collective that maybe didn't get burned down, grab a dozen eggs, and come home?" "Well, anything would sound ridiculous if said it in that tone of voice." "Tone of....I'm asking you a question!”
“Give us being and feeling over having any day.”
“Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style.”
“Well, it may be humorous to you, but itâ€™s a very serious matter to the squirrels.”
“To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a system of defense, where distance and possession are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage to judge certain values as of ultimate concern â€“ and to take the jump and to stake everything on these values.”
“I hate pork rinds. I couldn't imagine how anybody would ever get the idea of taking skin from a pig and frying it and then trying to sell it to people. And then people actually buy it to eat it. That is the true sign of the decline of the human race.”
“My photos are my diary. Every photo is no more than the representation of a single day. And each day contains the past and the projection into the future. That's why I feel compelled to indicate the date on every picture I take.”
“Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.”

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