152 Quotes by Pete Hamill

If you're the oldest in a large family, you tend to do everything yourself, particularly if you are the first American. You begin a habit or pattern that makes it easy to reject other help.

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

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.

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.

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

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

My parents were Belfast Catholics.

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.

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