Quotes by Gay Talese

Gay Talese

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.

Magazines

Men

Volume

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

College

Example

Writing

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 of a lifetime. An individual’s armor that had been developed to resist pain and rejection might also block a capacity for pleasure and achievement, and feelings too deeply trapped might be released only by acts of self-destruction or harm to others. Reich was convinced that sexual deprivation and frustration motivated much of the world’s chaos and warfare.

Block

Frustration

Pain

I am a documentarian of what I do.

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.

Character

New York

Writing

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

Come Up

Stories

Thinking

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

Thinking

Turns

Writing

I’ve always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.

Art

Journalism

Writing

It’s true what they say – all the good men are married. But it’s marriage that makes them good.

Good Man

Marriage

Men

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 to view the world with a critical eye and a detached sense of intimacy.

Eye

People

Views

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Inspirational

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Lasts

Lines

Littles

Loneliness

Lonely

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Magazines

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Moving

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Quotes by Gay Talese

Gay Talese

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.

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

I am a documentarian of what I do.

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.

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

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

I’ve always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.

It’s true what they say – all the good men are married. But it’s marriage that makes them good.

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 to view the world with a critical eye and a detached sense of intimacy.

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