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Mickey Spillane

"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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"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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Donna Grant

"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."

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Donna Grant

"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."

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Donna Grant

"A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can."

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Donna Grant

"Remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents."

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Donna Grant

"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."

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Donna Grant

"Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea."

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Donna Grant

"Write out of love. Your piece will finish itself."

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Donna Grant

"At the inauguration of each sentence, the writer commences with an optimistic sense of curiosity. Similar to an inquisitive explorer, a writer begins each thoughtful decree with an appreciative sense of the unknown and ends with a reverent regard for the unanswerable. Repeating this instigating act of discovery by placing a combination of sentences down on paper creates a unique verdict. The writer's compilation of pronouncements expresses their interpretation of life. Replicating this creative endeavor in the futile effort to say it all imitates the revolving mystery of life where physical reality and mysterious forces of nature operate upon humankind."

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Donna Grant

"The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd."

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"One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed."

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Mickey Spillane
"Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer."

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Mickey Spillane
"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."

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Mickey Spillane
"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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Mickey Spillane
"If the public likes you, you're good."

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

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Mickey Spillane
"See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older."

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Mickey Spillane
"Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney."

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Mickey Spillane
"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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Mickey Spillane
"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."

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Mickey Spillane
"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."

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