Feel Quotes

Writers are rememberers.

Pete Hamill

Tags: Writers

Everybody needs an editor.

Pete Hamill

Tags: Everybody Needs Editor

Sentimentality is a false sense of self.

Pete Hamill

Tags: Sense Self False

What would Chaucer have written about if men were perfect?

Pete Hamill

Tags: Men About Would

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

Pete Hamill

Tags: Travel Some Us

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

Pete Hamill

Tags: Food You More

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

Pete Hamill

Tags: Very Might Useful

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

Pete Hamill

Tags: Time Been Any

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

Pete Hamill

Tags: You Up Thing

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

Pete Hamill

Tags: Women Get Way

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

Pete Hamill

Tags: Good Best Sports

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

Pete Hamill

Tags: Me Life Want

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

Pete Hamill

Tags: Your Going Come

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

Pete Hamill

Tags: Great Know How

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

Tags: Me Never Go

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

Tags: War Our Being

Vietnam should have taught us that mindless anti-Communism is not a cause worth killing or dying for in a world in which Communism is hardly a monolithic force.

Pete Hamill

Tags: World Which Us

The most successful terrorist group in the United States for almost 70 years was the Ku Klux Klan. They hated Catholics, Jews, and blacks. They were prone to violence.

Pete Hamill

Tags: Most Were Years

Too many people take New York for granted. The primary reason is that history is not taught. That's outrageous in a city where the past is still visible.

Pete Hamill

Tags: History People Where

I think if you had to choose between running a tabloid and being president of the United States, of course you'd run the tabloid, especially in New York.

Pete Hamill

Tags: You Think Had

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.

Pete Hamill

Tags: Time Like Just

My father lost his leg in 1927 playing soccer. A kick broke his leg; gangrene set in. They sawed it off. So he didn't get what a lot of Irish immigrants got, which was a job on the Waterfront - he didn't get that.

Pete Hamill

Tags: Get Which Lot

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

Tags: Something Much Could

In my experience, growing up in Brooklyn and all that, the real tough guys didn't act tough. They didn't talk tough. They were tough, you know? I think about these politicians who try to pose as tough guys - it makes me laugh.

Pete Hamill

Tags: Experience You Me

In the 1950s, when I was hanging around Sullivan's Gym and the Gramercy Gym, there were fixed fights. Mob guys like Frankie Carbo and Blinky Palermo had taken over the sport; one lightweight champion loaned his title to others at least twice; the welterweight division was a slag heap.

Pete Hamill

Tags: Like Had Were

Reporters now are better educated than the crowd I knew when I broke in. We still had guys shaped by Prohibition and the Depression, so the news business still had badly paid people who loved it for the life, because every day was different.

Pete Hamill

Tags: Business People Who

One of the first things that helped me to understand certain things about writing was seeing 'The Iceman Cometh' in the Village when I was a kid, before I ever became a newspaperman, and realizing that the world I knew could also be the subject of some amazing stuff.

Pete Hamill

Tags: Amazing Me About