Mickey Spillane quote: "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. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.
MICKEY SPILLANE

Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than cav...
MICKEY SPILLANE

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
MICKEY SPILLANE

Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.
MICKEY SPILLANE

My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churc...
MICKEY SPILLANE

Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 ...
MICKEY SPILLANE

I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.
MICKEY SPILLANE

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledg...
MICKEY SPILLANE

Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get ...
MICKEY SPILLANE

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
MICKEY SPILLANE

I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.
MICKEY SPILLANE

Where the Truth Lies ... L.A. Confidential.
MICKEY SPILLANE

I'm a commercial writer, not an "author." Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
MICKEY SPILLANE

Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than cav...
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...
MICKEY SPILLANE

Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.
MICKEY SPILLANE

Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like St...
MICKEY SPILLANE

The truce ... could easily dissolve by November.
KEVIN SPILLANE

Your opponents realize that it's been 'X' amount of years since you've been beaten. It's tough, you ...
CHRIS SPILLANE

It's been our nemesis all year. I really can't put a finger on it. It's not for lack of effort. It m...
CHRIS SPILLANE

We can pull up our folding chairs, eat popcorn and watch the show.
KEVIN SPILLANE

Overall it was a good effort. We missed a few of the genuine scoring opportunities that came our way...
CHRIS SPILLANE

I would like to see them go out, clean up the trees. I understand they can't do all of them just one...
DEBBIE SPILLANE

The weather wasn't great that day. It was a big tree and it killed her instantly.
DEBBIE SPILLANE

Tammy was on her way to work on Fishers Road and a partially dead tree came down on her car.
DEBBIE SPILLANE

Yesterday we got a bullish comment on Coke that raised expectations of the company reporting to the ...
BRYAN SPILLANE

There are a couple of reasons why the stock is under pressure today.
BRYAN SPILLANE

There are not many companies in consumer staples right now that are able to raise estimates.
BRYAN SPILLANE

There's still a feeling of exhaustion so soon after the November special election.
KEVIN SPILLANE

The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chi...
MICKEY RIVERS

I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.
MICKEY ROURKE

Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, ...
MICKEY ROURKE

All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.
MICKEY ROURKE

I think I was the youngest, fastest-promoted buyer in the history of Bloomingdale's.
MICKEY DREXLER

I find, in merchandising and design and creative, a business school degree isn't particularly he...
MICKEY DREXLER

You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.
MICKEY MANTLE

I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.
MICKEY MANTLE

I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia figh...
MICKEY ROURKE

We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes.
MICKEY RIVERS

I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me.
MICKEY ROONEY

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day...
MICKEY ROONEY

When I play my best golf, I feel as if I'm in a fog, standing back watching the earth in orbit with ...
MICKEY WRIGHT

All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me anoth...
MICKEY LOLICH

A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100, 000 sho...
MICKEY ROONEY

I had it all and blew it.
MICKEY MANTLE

You always pass failure on the way to success.
MICKEY ROONEY

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. -Mickey Mantle.
MICKEY MANTLE

I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.
MICKEY ROURKE

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whol...
MICKEY ROONEY

When I started at Bloomingdale's as a buyer, Alexander's was a discounter across the street,...
MICKEY DREXLER

The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we...
MICKEY HART

I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the...
MICKEY ROURKE

I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter. I...
MICKEY ROONEY

I just want to make sure that I give the animators everything they need, so they have plenty of choi...
MICKEY ROONEY

You know, back in acting school they always teach you, 'Make bold choices and look for activitie...
MICKEY ROURKE

The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it a...
MICKEY ROURKE

A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms ...
MICKEY ROURKE

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or no...
MICKEY ROURKE

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
MICKEY MANTLE

Comeback is a good word, man.
MICKEY ROURKE

Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that's ...
MICKEY HART

If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.
MICKEY GILLEY

Christopher Columbus discovered America in a blue-and-white sailor shirt, and since then, men have b...
MICKEY DREXLER

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.
MICKEY HART

Joe Louis was one of my closest friends.... I'm a great boxing fan. I used to go to the American...
MICKEY ROONEY

All the muddy waters of my life cleared up when I gave myself to Christ.
MICKEY ROONEY

Do it, do it right, pay close attention to the product, and over time, you will win.
MICKEY DREXLER

We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes.
MICKEY RIVERS

My views are just about the same as Casey's.
MICKEY MANTLE

He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.
MICKEY MANTLE

I was about six years old when I did 'Orchids and Ermine.' They dressed me in a suit, put a ...
MICKEY ROONEY

I'm looking forward to partnering with TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners. This transa...
MICKEY DREXLER

I call them associates; I don't like the word 'employee.'
MICKEY DREXLER

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.
MICKEY MANTLE

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher a...
MICKEY MANTLE

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog ...
MICKEY KAUS

When I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stor...
MICKEY ROURKE

Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
MICKEY MANTLE

To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.
MICKEY MANTLE

I didn't have a childhood, really, because I worked my whole life and... other reasons. So when ...
MICKEY ROURKE

As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last ...
MICKEY MANTLE

Get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.
MICKEY ROONEY

Everything is about looking for happiness and God. That was a sentiment shared by my dear friend Ron...
MICKEY ROONEY

The person is a resume, not what's on a piece of paper. Whoever gives advice about resumes in co...
MICKEY DREXLER

I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't drink coffee. Starbucks is not going to make any m...
MICKEY ROONEY

I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count.
MICKEY GILLEY

There are too many retailers. There are too many brands. There are too many designers. There are too...
MICKEY DREXLER

I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan.
MICKEY RIVERS

Me and George and Billy are two of a kind. (on his relationship with George Steinbrenner and Billy M...
MICKEY RIVERS

He played superbly. We were a bit worried about him after seeing how well he batted with the tail in...
MICKEY ARTHUR

When you select a spinner on a (pitch) that helps spin, you expect a little bit more than that.
MICKEY ARTHUR

We had game plans in Australia and the guys played him very well.
MICKEY ARTHUR

We want to get some momentum going in this last game against Australia.
MICKEY ARTHUR

Before the injuries, we were a tight unit with the roles clearly defined. But once we lost players, ...
MICKEY ARTHUR

He's the rock around which we normally build our innings.
MICKEY ARTHUR

You ask me for a name to pull out the hat to replace Gibbs if he gets seriously injured tomorrow. No...
MICKEY ARTHUR

We sent AB back home to learn some more about ODI cricket. He had a bit of an identity crisis in thi...
MICKEY ARTHUR

It was a strange injury. When he came off in the first innings he noticed a slight swelling under hi...
MICKEY ARTHUR

You can miss one player, but it's tough when you're missing four.
MICKEY ARTHUR

Now we have a one-game winning streak.
MICKEY ANDREWS

I don't know how he could have played much better. He has proven why he is an All-American. He is ce...
MICKEY ANDREWS

He'll be better because he'll understand the other position. Plus it's helped depth.
MICKEY ANDREWS

Because they are older, more mature players, they're playing with a little more reckless abandon. It...
MICKEY ANDREWS

Our goal is always to hold the other team to 15 points or less. To hold them to three is really unbe...
MICKEY ANDREWS

This group for what we need might be as good a defensive group that we've brought in. They are guys ...
MICKEY ANDREWS

Coach Bowden gave a statement on that. The only thing I'll say is that we're disappointed. What it p...
MICKEY ANDREWS

I think the biggest thing is that we have to replace a bunch of starters. We've lost 14 players. Up ...
MICKEY ANDREWS

You've got to have passion to play football. We had it on the goal line. But we didn't play like tha...
MICKEY ANDREWS

We're not playing hard enough, we're not playing mean enough, and we're not finishing plays. We're j...
MICKEY ANDREWS

Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there.
MICKEY FRIEDMAN

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
MICKEY MANTLE

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
MICKEY MOUSE

These guys are so old they're eligible for meals on wheels.
MICKEY RIVERS

Without question, Kurt was our go-to guy. He played fearlessly and wanted the ball in his hands at c...
MICKEY MARTIN

It is just a roll of the dice. Nobody knows how it is going to turn out, we just have to wait and se...
MICKEY DELAMAR

Sometimes the transition from being in control of your life to having absolutely no control is swift...
MICKEY ROONEY

There were many times during our career when he could've quit and done something else. But he kn...
MICKEY HART

When I heard Grateful Dead music, I knew that it was the most powerful force on the planet.
MICKEY HART

When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electro...
MICKEY HART

The Grateful Dead were very kind. It was Santa Claus. It did good things. It allowed other people to...
MICKEY HART

Yeah, I miss the Grateful Dead. I miss that groove. I miss the brotherhood. Absolutely. There's ...
MICKEY HART

Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.
MICKEY ROURKE

I think without a doubt there will never be a voice like Judy Garland.
MICKEY ROONEY

Judy Garland was a different type of entertainer. She was a dancer, a singer, and an incurable roman...
MICKEY ROONEY

I made all these great musicals with Judy Garland. It was all about me going into a barn and saying:...
MICKEY ROONEY

Dreams sometimes foretell the future.
MICKEY HART

Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw ...
MICKEY MANTLE

I'm happy that the players are available again. It mightn't be totally accurate to say everyone has ...
MICKEY HARTE

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getti...
MICKEY RIVERS

No wonder you're all mixed up. You got a white man's first name, a Spanish man's second name and a b...
MICKEY RIVERS

If you can stop him, you got a better chance, ... If you do that, the Angels aren't as hard to beat.
MICKEY RIVERS

Sometimes the independent movies can get a little too arty-farty. You watch the IFC Channel and you ...
MICKEY ROURKE

It takes more to make a scandal in Hollywood than Jared Paul Stern . Hollywood has looser ethical gu...
MICKEY KAUS

If you don't care about the lapel or the buttons or the fit, then you are doing a disservice to ...
MICKEY DREXLER

The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.
MICKEY MANTLE

It looks a little bit browner although there is still moisture beneath the surface. I do like going ...
MICKEY ARTHUR

The guys had to be brave and it's shown them what can actually be achieved. We'll probably never rec...
MICKEY ARTHUR

Although a heightened degree of overseas job outsourcing is probably taking place, the phenomenon is...
MICKEY LEVY

If we knew and if he knew (who killed Moxley), he would be the first one to rat the person out, no m...
MICKEY SHERMAN

All 24 of these young men and women have reputations for intelligence, thoughtfulness, and the abili...
MICKEY EDWARDS

Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and ...
MICKEY MANTLE

He was straight as an arrow, a churchgoing kid, everyone liked him. I don't understand why things li...
MICKEY CROUCH

We have borne the brunt again of a dropped catch. The bowlers toiled hard and I can't fault them for...
MICKEY ARTHUR

He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.
MICKEY RIVERS

My goals are to hit .300, score 100 runs, and stay injury-prone.
MICKEY RIVERS

I'm going to double my limit.
MICKEY RIVERS

Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.
MICKEY RIVERS

I would like Madewell jeans to be the Levi's of its generation.
MICKEY DREXLER

A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how...
MICKEY DREXLER

When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all ...
MICKEY MANTLE

She wasn't worth the effort. Her boyfriend can have her back.
MICKEY ROURKE

I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps.
MICKEY ROURKE

The relief efforts take priority right now and, if they need the Saints' complex, it's there for the...
MICKEY LOOMIS

Lobbying is a constitutionally protected activity because the opposite of lobbying is to treat publi...
MICKEY EDWARDS

I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.
MICKEY ROONEY

Once he gets in and just plays natural, be himself, he's going to do great. I like this guy. He's no...
MICKEY RIVERS

I like watching because that's my style of play, ... When he does what he does, I enjoy it.
MICKEY RIVERS

What was the name of that dog on 'Rin Tin Tin'?
MICKEY RIVERS

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every...
MICKEY MANTLE

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who ...
MICKEY MANTLE

Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He...
MICKEY MANTLE

The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.
MICKEY MANTLE

He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie
MICKEY MANTLE

I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.
MICKEY MANTLE

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, e...
MICKEY MANTLE

My personal opinion about the world is that it's homogenized.
MICKEY DREXLER

Everyone who worked on 'The Fox and the Hound' is important. We're all lucky to be in a ...
MICKEY ROONEY

When you're young, working in a warehouse or selling hot dogs, you look at work - at acting - as...
MICKEY ROURKE

Everybody had a feeling. It just wasn't there. ..We put it to pasture, righteously as it should be.
MICKEY HART

The adventure of composition is a mystery. The muse has her ways, she hides from you, comes for you ...
MICKEY HART

Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that's what...
MICKEY HART

Music is feeling. Once you start thinking about it then you overdevelop it. It should come from the ...
MICKEY HART

She spoke my name for the first time in a year. She ... sort of came out of the darkness for a few m...
MICKEY HART

In a lot of our presentations, we don't talk much about religion because it is such a broad topic, ....
MICKEY HART

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.
MICKEY MANTLE

Jacques is training again, bowling and fielding. It's just batting that's still a problem and he's n...
MICKEY ARTHUR

I suppose it does release the shackles. I think there might be one or two happier batters out there ...
MICKEY ARTHUR

A lawsuit is not an event for the sprinter.
MICKEY RATHBUN

To those seniors, and especially elderly veterans like myself, I want to tell you this: You are not ...
MICKEY ROONEY

Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had ...
MICKEY ROONEY

I was a 14-year-old boy for 30 years.
MICKEY ROONEY

She tried to analyze me once but she got too scared.
MICKEY ROURKE

The president is always somewhere on the horizon in any midterm election, and in this one it might v...
MICKEY EDWARDS

He tweaked a hamstring (in the first Test) in Cape Town, and he was just feeling the effects.
MICKEY ARTHUR

I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years
MICKEY ROONEY

He'll get pissed off, and you'd better watch out. They don't want to piss him off ---- they want to ...
MICKEY HATCHER

This is a role model: Don't be like me.
MICKEY MANTLE

As long as they put the invitation in the mail (I'll be here).
MICKEY TETTLETON

Kayla was once again steady. She is starting to get a lot more assists because teams are cutting her...
MICKEY BLATNIK

My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me everyday a...
MICKEY MANTLE

I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm a...
MICKEY MANTLE

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, ...
MICKEY MANTLE

I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.
MICKEY MANTLE

I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brake...
MICKEY ROONEY

We've seen data from various sectors showing the economy is beginning to stabilize. Not only employm...
MICKEY LEVY

I enjoy beating myself from the previous year. It's a hobby. You have to enjoy it. You've got to hav...
DWIGHT MICKEY

It's a snapshot of how we did growing apples. If they would taste our apples I know I'd do better. M...
DWIGHT MICKEY

I really like his swing, and he really likes his swing. This is the best I've ever seen him. He has ...
MICKEY HATCHER

There is a difference between earned legality and amnesty.
MICKEY IBARRA

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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