Gay Talese Quotes
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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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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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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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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I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.
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Thirteen years I took on this last book.
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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take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer.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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Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.
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News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.
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The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.
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For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.
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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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Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.
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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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Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuel - only worse.
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If you're a child of store owners, if you're brought up in a store, you learn good manners. You have to be genial, well-liked. You're not going to sell a customer if you're rude. You also get with different age groups, and different types of people. So be respectful. Being respectful is very important. You have to learn this.