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Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.
But at my age, you start to get tired.
Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.
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.
I dont like any of them, because they don't read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than hi... (more Mickey Spillane quotes)
Critic Anthony Boucher once remarked that Spillane's novel I, the Jury should be "required reading in a Gestapo training school."
Spillane's last Mike Hammer novel was Black Alley written in 1996.
In 1995, the Mystery Writers of America presented Spillane with their Grand Master award.
Spillane has four children from his marriage to first wife Mary Ann Pearce.
Spillane briefly attended Fort Hays State College in Kansas. He was a member of t... (more Mickey Spillane trivia)
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