Mickey Spillane: 1918-2006

Morreu hoje um conhecido dos amantes de livros policiais, recorrente na famosa Colecção Vampiro. Não era o melhor exemplo da boa escrita, mas preencheu-me incontáveis horas de Verão. Adeus, Mr. Mike Hammer.

"The biggest part of the joke is the punch line, so the biggest part of a book should be the punch line, the ending. People don't read a book to get to the middle, they read a book to get to the end and hope that the ending justifies all the time they spent reading it. So what I do is, I get my ending and, knowing what my ending is going to be, then I write to the end and have the fun of knowing where I'm going but not how I'm going to get there."

(Spillane in "Speaking of Murder", edição de Ed Gorman e Martin H. Greenberg, 1998.)