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"I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger."
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"Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus patches or listen to opera music."
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"The plan had three phases: dangerous, really dangerous and insanely dangerous."
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"There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people."
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"Adrenaline wants to kill you..."
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"Where there is murder, anything can happen."
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"And when demigods use cell phones, the signals agitate every monster within a hundred miles. It's like sending up a flare: Here I am! Please rearrange my face!"
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"The only thing more dangerous then a vampire crazed with blood lust was a vampire crazed with anything else. All the meticulous single-mindedness that went into finding young women who slept with their bedroom window open got channeled into some other interest, with merciless and painstaking efficiency..."
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"Getting eaten by a giant crocodile was bad enough.The kid with the glowing sword only made my day worse."
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"There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation."
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"The only wolves we got to fear are the ones wear manskin."
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"I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger."
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"I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it."
People
"Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book."
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"Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am."
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"I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book."
Media
"Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo."
Past
"I read all the time... I read a lot of history books."
History
"Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer."
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"I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics."
Writing
"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."
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