All Gay Talese Quotes
- The real problem is what to do with problem solvers after the problem is solved. Inspirational
- Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them. Aficionados
- Sports is about people who lose and lose and lose. They lose games; then they lose their jobs. It can be very intriguing. Games
- News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all All
- I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about Inspirational
- 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… Alive
- I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work Finished
- 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… Alive
- For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work College
- Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people Escape
- People dress up for funerals. Why not dress up to celebrate that you’re alive? Alive
- It's true what they say - all the good men are married. But it's marriage that makes them good. All
- Putting on a beautifully designed suit elevates my spirit, extols my sense of self, and helps define me as a man to whom details matter. Beautifully
- Journalism is a voyeuristic vocation that attracts to its employment many people who are often naturally shy and insatiably curious, and each day they are… Assigned
- Listen, then make up your own mind. Funny
- Wall Street bankers supposedly back the Yankees; Smith College girls approve of them. God, Brooks Brothers, and United States Steel are believed to be solidly… Approve
- Unlike the millions who casually masturbate in solitude while looking at girlie pictures in Playboy and similar magazines, the massage man preferred an accomplice, an… Accomplice
- Many male habitues of massage parlors, like Talese, did not like solitary masturbation; in the parlance of the younger generation, it was a "downer." And… Age
- He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical events and turbulence… Achievement
- 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… Alimony
- 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… All
- 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… Always Possess
- Thirteen years I took on this last book. Book
- The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved. Problem
- 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… Another Day