Gay Talese
Gay Talese
Gay Taleseis an American author. As a writer for The New York Times and Esquire magazine in the 1960s, Talese helped to define literary journalism. Talese's most famous articles are about Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth7 February 1932
CityOcean City, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
insatiable sex
He was a sex junkie with an insatiable habit.
ability promote reason relevant true
He was a true showman. He had not only the talent, but he had the ability to promote that talent. That's one reason why I think he's still relevant after all these years.
marriage men good-man
It's true what they say - all the good men are married. But it's marriage that makes them good.
mind
Listen, then make up your own mind.
impact news might
News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all
moving character quality
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.
soccer groups littles
Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.
pain block frustration
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.
lines alive tomorrow
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