Mickey Spillane

“Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.”

“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.”

“If I need something, I'll invent it.”

“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.”

“If the public likes you, you're good.”