Gay Talese Quotes

• New glass skyscrapers stand shoulder to shoulder, reflecting one another narcissistically.

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• With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.

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  Tags in Characters, Dialogue

• News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.

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• I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.

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  Tags in People, Self, Writing

• People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.

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  Tags in People, Restaurants, Difference

• I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

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  Tags in Self

• Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.

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• Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.

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  Tags in Familiar, Magazine

• I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

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  Tags in Self, Stories, Thinking

• For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.

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  Topics in College, Work

  Tags in Self

• Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.

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  Tags in Restaurants, Wonderful

• Thirteen years I took on this last book.

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  Tags in Self

• The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm.

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  Tags in Reporter, Testimony

• The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.

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  Tags in Problem, Solvers

• Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.

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  Tags in Soccer, Fans

Gay Talese (15)

Birth:	7th February, 1932
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Journalist

About

Gay Talese was born in Ocean City, New Jersey, USA. He is an American author and journalist. As a writer for The New York Times and Esquire magazine in the 1960s, he helped to define literary journalism. Talese's most famous articles are about Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra. He has written several books include: Thy Neighbor's Wife, Honor Thy Father, Unto the Sons, A Writer's Life, The Kingdom and the Power, The Bridge, and Fame and Obscurity.

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