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

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

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

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.

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.

If the public likes you, you're good.

Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.

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

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.

Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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