I am a documentarian of what I do.

- Gay Talese

Journalism is a voyeuristic vocation that attracts to its employment many people who are often naturally shy and insatiably curious, and each day the…

- Gay Talese

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 …

- Gay Talese

The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.

- Gay Talese

Listen, then make up your own mind.

- Gay Talese

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

- Gay Talese

Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in people and places. . . . gloom is their game, the spectacl…

- Gay Talese

People dress up for funerals. Why not dress up to celebrate that you’re alive?

- Gay Talese

The real problem is what to do with problem solvers after the problem is solved.

- Gay Talese