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Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it. — Pete Hamill

If it's a beautiful day, I love taking walks. The walks are always aimless. — Pete Hamill

The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia — Pete Hamill

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

The background of any artist is shaped by the first 15 years of his or her life. — Pete Hamill

'The Daily News' and 'Post' gave me my life, and I want to see them survive. — Pete Hamill

Anybody who sits and says, 'I know New York' is from out of town. — Pete Hamill

There's no way that any tabloid can survive if it doesn't get women to read it. — Pete Hamill

Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of wages. — Pete Hamill

I like to say that journalism is the graduate school from which you never graduate. — Pete Hamill

I was the oldest of seven kids, so I had no older brother who would say, 'Schmuck, don't do that.' — Pete Hamill

For a long time, I was in love with her in that diffuse, ambiguous, and obsessive way that can never be explained to strangers. — Pete Hamill

We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and surrender to the music. — Pete Hamill

I had grown up under the heroic spell of the Abstract Expressionist painters, — Pete Hamill

Everybody needs an editor. — Pete Hamill

I would understand later that baseball was what truly made him an American: the sports pages were more crucial documents than the Constitution. — Pete Hamill

Getting out any weekly magazine requires many hours of reading, choosing, discarding, and thinking beyond the obvious. — Pete Hamill

In 1955, there were 150,000 New Yorkers on welfare; in 1995, there were 1.3 million. — Pete Hamill

Today there are a lot of novelists who seem to be writing to be reviewed, not read. — Pete Hamill

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century. — Pete Hamill

He looked at her for a long moment, as if remembering unfinished conversations, and then went back to place some damp, slow-burning turf on the fire. — Pete Hamill

You can't edit yesterday's paper. — Pete Hamill

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

Part of my head will always be in the years after World War II - the five years before Korea started. — Pete Hamill

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

My parents were Belfast Catholics. — Pete Hamill

Nothing surprises me, particularly men and their propensity to be fools. — Pete Hamill

More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark. — Pete Hamill

know Brooklynites who have never been to Radio City Music Hall. — Pete Hamill

The original text of New York is all below Chambers Street. — Pete Hamill

The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings. — Pete Hamill

When I was in the navy, I wanted to go to Paris and the Academie Julian. I never did. Mexico City took me instead. — Pete Hamill

The Internet has got great tools. How we lived without Google all those years I don't know. — Pete Hamill

To me, doctors and nurses and teachers are heroes, doing often infinitely more difficult work than the more flamboyant kind of a hero. — Pete Hamill

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful. — Pete Hamill

In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable. — Pete Hamill

The challenge remains a simple one: to write news that stays news. — Pete Hamill

Boxing is one of those leftovers from a more primitive past that should be finished off and killed. I don't love it anymore. — Pete Hamill

If you ask me, I think 12-step programs are perfectly valid, can be an enormous help. But it depends on the individual. — Pete Hamill

I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened. — Pete Hamill

The spookiest thing I can remember about John Gotti is his eyes. — Pete Hamill

The replenishing thing that comes with a nap - you end up with two mornings in a day. — Pete Hamill

The odyssey is not going out and seeing the world: it's about trying to get home. It's home to the woman you love. — Pete Hamill

New York is essentially a bazaar, not a Presbyterian church. — Pete Hamill

The Irish fought the Italians until they started marrying them. And then they both fought the Jews until they started marrying them. — Pete Hamill

For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair. — Pete Hamill

I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career. — Pete Hamill

Sentimentality is a false sense of self. — Pete Hamill

All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser's locker room. — Pete Hamill

He tried to imagine the sound of the color red. — Pete Hamill

Travel at least erodes some of the narrowness that exists in each of us. — Pete Hamill

What would Chaucer have written about if men were perfect? — Pete Hamill

The great novel of twentieth-century New York might be the Daily News. — Pete Hamill

You will never have enough space in a tabloid paper to compete with the 'New York Times' on foreign coverage. — Pete Hamill

Ezra Pound was a crackpot on social and political issues, but he knew what he was talking about in matters of the written language. — Pete Hamill

Reaches past her back and holds one of her hands. Silence — Pete Hamill

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

New York and Dublin are now suburbs of each other. — Pete Hamill

This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy. — Pete Hamill

You've got to have something in your life you don't sell to others. — Pete Hamill

The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist. — Pete Hamill

Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations. — Pete Hamill

My father did shape me. He didn't drive because he had one leg, and for years I never drove. I had no mobility. — Pete Hamill

Say what you will about him Ed Koch is still the best show in town. — Pete Hamill

The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys' name. — Pete Hamill

It's easy to be a tough guy when no one's going to come knocking on your door. — Pete Hamill

There are human beings who will be helped in understanding our times through the diaries of Edward Robb Ellis. — Pete Hamill

The blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it's not journalism. — Pete Hamill

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

When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics. — Pete Hamill

I'm so concerned with morgues and libraries of the newspapers. — Pete Hamill

Confession alone is not necessarily good for the soul. — Pete Hamill

Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies. — Pete Hamill

I've lived in other cities - Rome, Dublin, Mexico City - but I was born in New York City, and I always lived in those other places as a New Yorker. — Pete Hamill

I know second-generation New Yorkers who have never been to Brooklyn; — Pete Hamill

I wanted to sit there forever, drinking in bitter satisfaction, using someone else as a license. In the years that followed, I did a lot of that. — Pete Hamill

The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia. — Pete Hamill

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

You can't be a reporter using Google. It can be a tool. But you have to get out of the house. — Pete Hamill

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

There's no one New York. There's multiple New Yorks. — Pete Hamill

For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library. — Pete Hamill

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

Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city. — Pete Hamill

Across the years, in spite of everything I knew, my passion endured. Newspapers and magazines paid me to cover fights when I'd have paid my own way. — Pete Hamill

Writers are rememberers. — Pete Hamill