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Top 30 Gay Talese Quotes (2025 Update)

Gay Talese Quote: “Listen, then make up your own mind.”

1. “Listen, then make up your own mind.”

Gay Talese Quote: “Sports is about people who lose and lose and lose. They lose games; then they lose their jobs. It can be very intriguing.”

2. “Sports is about people who lose and lose and lose. They lose games; then they lose their jobs. It can be very intriguing.”

Gay Talese Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

Gay Talese Quote: “People dress up for funerals. Why not dress up to celebrate that you’re alive?”

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

Gay Talese Quote: “The real problem is what to do with problem solvers after the problem is solved.”

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

Gay Talese Quote: “News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.”

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

Gay Talese Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

$Gay Talese Quote: “Gerald Foos’s explanation in his journal – he was ‘only an observer and not a reporter,’ and he ‘really didn’t exist as far as the male and female subjects were concerned’ – were explanations that didn’t surprise me because of his often-expressed notion that he was a fractured individual, a hybridized combination of the Voyeur and Gerald Foos.”$

8. “Gerald Foos’s explanation in his journal – he was ‘only an observer and not a reporter,’ and he ‘really didn’t exist as far as the male and female subjects were concerned’ – were explanations that didn’t surprise me because of his often-expressed notion that he was a fractured individual, a hybridized combination of the Voyeur and Gerald Foos.”

Gay Talese Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

Gay Talese Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

Gay Talese Quote: “Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.”

11. “Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.”

Gay Talese Quote: “It’s true what they say – all the good men are married. But it’s marriage that makes them good.”

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

Gay Talese Quote: “The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer’s paradise.”

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

Gay Talese Quote: “I’ve always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.”

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

Gay Talese Quote: “When a bridge fails, the engineer who designed it is as good as dead.”

15. “When a bridge fails, the engineer who designed it is as good as dead.”

Gay Talese Quote: “And so there is nothing new in Thy Neighbor’s Wife. Nor is there anything old.”

16. “And so there is nothing new in Thy Neighbor’s Wife. Nor is there anything old.”

Gay Talese Quote: “I am a documentarian of what I do.”

17. “I am a documentarian of what I do.”

Gay Talese Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

Gay Talese Quote: “Interestingly, the historic case of 1868 in England that first defined obscenity-known among lawyers as the Hicklin decision- evolved out of the prosecution of a pamphlet describing how priests were often so sexually aroused while hearing women’s confessions that they sometimes masturbated and even copulated with their repentant subjects in the confessional.”

19. “Interestingly, the historic case of 1868 in England that first defined obscenity-known among lawyers as the Hicklin decision- evolved out of the prosecution of a pamphlet describing how priests were often so sexually aroused while hearing women’s confessions that they sometimes masturbated and even copulated with their repentant subjects in the confessional.”

Gay Talese Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

Gay Talese Quote: “I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.”

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

Gay Talese Quote: “Thirteen years I took on this last book.”

22. “Thirteen years I took on this last book.”

Gay Talese Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

Gay Talese Quote: “They were unabashed voyeurs looking at him; and Talese looked back.”

24. “They were unabashed voyeurs looking at him; and Talese looked back.”

Gay Talese Quote: “One way to hold a woman is not to hold her.”

25. “One way to hold a woman is not to hold her.”

Gay Talese Quote: “Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.”

26. “Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.”

Gay Talese Quote: “I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.”

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

Gay Talese Quote: “In New York the Fifth Avenue Lingerie Shop is on Madison Avenue, the Madison Pet Shop is on Lexington Avenue, the Park Avenue Florist is on Madison Avenue, and the Lexington Hand Laundry is on Third Avenue. New York is the home of 120 pawnbrokers, and it is where Bishop Sheen’s brother, Dr. Sheen, shares an office with one Dr. Bishop.”

28. “In New York the Fifth Avenue Lingerie Shop is on Madison Avenue, the Madison Pet Shop is on Lexington Avenue, the Park Avenue Florist is on Madison Avenue, and the Lexington Hand Laundry is on Third Avenue. New York is the home of 120 pawnbrokers, and it is where Bishop Sheen’s brother, Dr. Sheen, shares an office with one Dr. Bishop.”

Gay Talese Quote: “For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.”

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

Gay Talese Quote: “For everyone in this occupation, the skyline of New York is a family tree.”

30. “For everyone in this occupation, the skyline of New York is a family tree.”

Gay Talese Quote: “It is his bottomless interest in other people, famous and unfamous, his loving immersion in their pasts, in what their mothers said to them when they were children, and what their childhood bedrooms looked like, that distinguishes him from the run-of-the-mill journalist. For him the story is not over when the book is sent off to the publishers. He stays in touch with many of his sources for years, for decades, still interested in what happens to them, still gathering information, still involved.”

31. “It is his bottomless interest in other people, famous and unfamous, his loving immersion in their pasts, in what their mothers said to them when they were children, and what their childhood bedrooms looked like, that distinguishes him from the run-of-the-mill journalist. For him the story is not over when the book is sent off to the publishers. He stays in touch with many of his sources for years, for decades, still interested in what happens to them, still gathering information, still involved.”

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