"I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney."

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Source : Interview with Michael Carlson, Crime Time, 2001.

Mickey Spillane

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“Quality rather than quantity distinguishes the master.”
“The popular and scientific views of "race" no longer coincide. The word "race," as applied scientifically to human groupings, has lost any sharpness of meaning. To-day it is hardly definable in scientific terms, except as an abstract concept which may, under certain conditions, very different from those now prevalent, have been realized approximately in the past and might, under certain other but equally different conditions, be realized in the distant future.”
“The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.”
“I represent a district in Nevada, a state that is home to more wild horses than all other states combined.”
“I tilted my chin up a fraction. "You can't f-force me to stay here." I'd only agreed to come this far because I didn't want to stand out in the downpour, for one, and I had high hopes of finding a phone, for two. "That sounded more like a question than a statement," said Patch. "Then ans-s-swer it." His rogue smile crept out. "It's hard to concentrate on answers with you looking like that." I glanced down at Patch's black shirt, wet and clinging to my body. I brushed past him and shut the bathroom door between us.”
“Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.”
“Being a friend of Fischer obviously is no undivided pleasure, though being Fischer seems sadder.”
“I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.”

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