The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.

- Pete Hamill

The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia

- Pete Hamill

One thing is certain: for many of those who came back from WWII, the music of Frank Sinatra was no consolation for their losses. Some had lost friend…

- Pete Hamill

Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.

- Pete Hamill

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 the mornin…

- Pete Hamill

There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accou…

- Pete Hamill

Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white, dancing in a livi…

- Pete Hamill

My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good books: 'the …

- Pete Hamill

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

- Pete Hamill