152 Quotes by Pete Hamill

New York is essentially a bazaar, not a Presbyterian church.

Usually, I work every day, seven days a week. When I go three days without writing, my body aches with anxiety; my mood is irritable. My night dreams grow wild with unconscious invention.

You can't edit yesterday's paper.

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

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

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

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

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

The Huffingtonpost.com does not pay its writers. Tina Brown's thedailybeast.com does pay its writers. You have to be paid because this is not a hobby. You have to keep that standard. You can't ask grandpa to loan you money because you have to go to Afghanistan. I walked the picket line for that to continue.