Top 103 Quotes by Pete Hamill

One thing I learned working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was to be on time. If the day begins at 8 A.M., be there early, get there, punch the time clock; don't just stand there like an oaf.

I couldn't have been the novelist I was without being the journalist I was.

Sinatra's endurance has become a rallying point for many people who feel that their sacrifices and hard work are no longer honored.

Journalism is a team sport. Writing novels is golf: it's you and the ball.

New York and Dublin are now suburbs of each other.

Losers are more like the rest of us. They make mistakes they can't take back.

I'm not interested in stories about movie stars. I couldn't care less what Steve Martin has on his mind.

For years, the defenders of television have argued that the networks are only giving the people what they want. That might be true. But so is the Medellin cartel.

I usually wake up at 7, 7:15, without an alarm. I hate the sound of an alarm.

There's nothing more human than selling food to strangers, you know?