“She quotes Robert Louis Stevenson about how young writers must read like predators. And she says that all of us, not just writers, must read like predators. For books are food, she said, for every single one of us.” — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“The great novel of twentieth-century New York might be the Daily News.” — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“A half-century later, Mark Twain would say that the gold rush drastically changed the American character, ending the tradition of patient apprenticeships, the gradual… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“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… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“ "The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence, because New York is best seen with innocent eyes. It doesn't matter… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their faces set… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“In Mexico, I first encountered the attitude that was missing from the optimistic sense of living in the United States: a tragic sense of… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“The world was a grand confusion. Finally, when I was drunk, and my mind couldn’t do what I wanted it to do, I went… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
They all laughed. I drew their pictures and they asked for copies and I handed them out as if they were my tickets to… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
