Quotes from Gay Talese

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.

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

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

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