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.
From Pete Hamill
I couldn't have been the novelist I was without being the journalist I was.
My parents were Belfast Catholics.
When I was in the navy, I wanted to go to Paris and the Academie Julian. I never did. Mexico City took me instead.
In 1962, I wrote a series about 42nd Street called 'Welcome to Lostville.' One result was that the young Bob Dylan read it and invited me to his first concert at Town Hall; the result was a kind of friendship that years later led to my liner notes for 'Blood on the Tracks.'
I like to say that journalism is the graduate school from which you never graduate.
Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.
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.
Ezra Pound was a crackpot on social and political issues, but he knew what he was talking about in matters of the written language.
Getting out any weekly magazine requires many hours of reading, choosing, discarding, and thinking beyond the obvious.
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