Pete Hamill Quotes
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For years, the defenders of television have argued that the networks are only giving the people what they want. That might be true. But so is the Medellin cartel.
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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.
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My parents were Belfast Catholics.
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Sinatra's endurance has become a rallying point for many people who feel that their sacrifices and hard work are no longer honored.
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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.
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The replenishing thing that comes with a nap - you end up with two mornings in a day.
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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.
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There's no way that any tabloid can survive if it doesn't get women to read it.
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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.
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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.
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The challenge remains a simple one: to write news that stays news.
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Everybody needs an editor.
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I couldn't have been the novelist I was without being the journalist I was.
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There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.
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Part of my head will always be in the years after World War II - the five years before Korea started.
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Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of wages.
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Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.
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The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist.
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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.
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You will never have enough space in a tabloid paper to compete with the 'New York Times' on foreign coverage.
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We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and surrender to the music.
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It's easy to be a tough guy when no one's going to come knocking on your door.
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You've got to have something in your life you don't sell to others.
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'The Daily News' and 'Post' gave me my life, and I want to see them survive.