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"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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"Writing is my pleasure and the play,where I find myself again and again."
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"Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself."
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"There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale."
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"My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother."
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"Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love."
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"Writing is a disease of the mind, which is expressed through a pen."
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"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."
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"What makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth..."
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"The eloquence of the pen is just as sharp as the point of a sword."
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"Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture."
Money
"I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger."
Danger
"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."
Books
"Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo."
Past
"Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney."
History
"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
"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."
Family
"I read all the time... I read a lot of history books."
History
"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."
Old
"I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien."
Fear
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