I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.
I am a documentarian of what I do. - Gay Talese
I am a documentarian of what I do.
- 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
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 …
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
Journalism is a voyeuristic vocation that attracts to its employment many people who are often naturally shy and insatiably curious, and each day the…
The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise. - Gay Talese
The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.
News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all - Gay Talese
News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all
Listen, then make up your own mind. - Gay Talese
Listen, then make up your own mind.
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
Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in people and places. . . . gloom is their game, the spectacl…
People dress up for funerals. Why not dress up to celebrate that you’re alive? - Gay Talese
People dress up for funerals. Why not dress up to celebrate that you’re alive?
The real problem is what to do with problem solvers after the problem is solved. - Gay Talese
The real problem is what to do with problem solvers after the problem is solved.
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