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Gay Talese [1932-0] American

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Gay Talese is 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.

Chance

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Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.	Chance	101
The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.		102
News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.		103
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.		104
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.		105
I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.		106
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.		107
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.		108
Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.		109
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.		110
Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.		111
For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.		112
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.		113
Thirteen years I took on this last book.		114

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