You've got to have something in your life you don't sell to others. Pete Hamill havelifesell Change image and share on social
Amazon.com isn't the same as going down an aisle. The same as record stores. You'll go for Billie Holiday, and you buy Gustav Mahler as you're going out the door. Pete Hamill aisleamazonbillie Change image and share on social
'The Daily News' and 'Post' gave me my life, and I want to see them survive. Pete Hamill dailygivelife Change image and share on social
Leon Uris is a storyteller, in a direct line from those men who sat around fires in the days before history and made the tribe more human. Pete Hamill daydirectfire Change image and share on social
The Irish fought the Italians until they started marrying them. And then they both fought the Jews until they started marrying them. Pete Hamill fightirishitalian Change image and share on social
At the beginning of writing fiction, too much of the newspaper style was getting into the prose, so I thought, 'Gee, I should try writing longhand. Maybe I can tap something that goes back to the point before I could type.' Pete Hamill backbeginfiction share on social
There are a lot of very good New York novels, but there's no single all-encompassing novel, the way you could look at any number of Dickens books and say we know London as a result of that. Pete Hamill bookdickenencompass Change image and share on social
He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled. Pete Hamill angryconsoledraw Change image and share on social
Travel at least erodes some of the narrowness that exists in each of us. Pete Hamill erodeexistnarrowness Change image and share on social
My parents were Belfast Catholics. Pete Hamill belfastcatholicparent Change image and share on social
