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- How to Become a Writer
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Gay Talese explains how a childhood spent eavesdropping on conversations in a New Jersey dress-shop and a lingering sense of being an outsider prepared him for the writing life.
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Gay Talese:
Gay Talese is an American journalist and a nonfiction writer. He wrote for The New York Times in the 1960s after working for its copy and obituary sections. In the 1950s, he was one of the first writers to add minute details, use literary flairs, and begin articles in medias res.
His groundbreaking article "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" was named the "best story Esquire ever published," and he was credited by Tom Wolfe with the creation of an inventive form of nonfiction writing called "The New Journalism."
He has written many non-fiction books, beginning with 1964’s The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. His 2006 autobiography A Writer’s Life focuses on his trials and failures as a writer, such as having a profile piece rejected by The New Yorker, which ironically reviewed the book positively and said it had a “distinctly moving” quality.
Gay Talese was named the winner of a George Polk Award for career achievement. The awards, presented by Long Island University, are considered among the top prizes in U.S. journalism. His latest book is High Notes: Selected Writings of Gay Talese.
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TRANSCRIPT:
Question: What’s the best advice you’ve been given as a writer?
Gay Talese: I wasn’t given any advice. I wasn’t even aware of writers during most of my life until I came to New York at the age of twenty-one after college. What made me a writer is what made me curious, and what made me curious was being an American that wasn’t sure how American I was. I think this is true of a lot of people who have foreign parents, and my mother and father ran a store in the southern part of New Jersey where I was born. The town was called Ocean City. I was born in 1932. When I was ten years old, the war, WW II, was very much being enacted through the European theatre, and the part of Italy that my parents come from, which is the southern part, was being attacked by allied forces, Americans, Canadians and British, moving up through areas that were the centers of my ancestry. Though I was born in New Jersey as I said before, I was ten years, eleven years old, twelve years old during that 1942, ’43, ’44 period, and the only thing I remember that made me a writer, and the curiosity that is necessary I think for being the kind of writer I am, a nonfiction writer, was that as a boy in the store I would see my parents react during the daytime in one manner as they dealt with customers.
My mother spoke English very well. My father spoke English with an accent, and he worked in the back of the store. My mother worked in the front of the store selling dresses, and what started me thinking about other people was when I overheard conversations between my mother and her customers, and I became very curious about the women and their stories.
The value of listening
Gay Talese: And so it was my listening to the stories as women on one end of the counter, who would talk across the counter to my mother on those leisurely afternoons while browsing through the clothing racks picking fabric or picking dresses to try on. They would be talking about things, and the thing that would be talking about weren’t necessarily of any significance in a social or historical sense, but they were revealing of personal moods, personal feelings, and during the war, there was references to the war, to the rationing of food, to the lack of gasoline during that period, to the fear of their sons or maybe daughters in the military service, or their uncles or fathers working in defense plants late at night in far away Philadelphia which is fifty miles away. And so as a boy, I was hearing references to the war while being remote from the war, and at the same time, I was intimately involved with the enemy in the war-the Italians-who of course were allied with the Germans because my father’s three brothers were in the Italian army.
Now you say what does that have to do with being a writer? What this has to do with being a writer is this; at a young age, I would eavesdrop in the store and hear stories of American women talking about their lives - the kind of material that might make for fiction writers; the essence of fiction, private life. At night I would hear in our apartment above the store -
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I have never titled myself "writer" or "author" but I knew very early on ( about 6yrs old) I had a NEED, an impulsive drive, to share my creativity in story form. Cathartic release, my mind wouldn't stop creating events, characters, places and I needed to empty my mind to make room for the constant incoming. I'm guessing, this is a definition of a "writer"... I write nearly everyday, always something I see, I hear, I read about, creates ideas that come bombarding through any thought, I NEED to write this down, it's too interesting to keep inside. I know others will enjoy this idea.
the look in his eyes captivates you into listening and his storytelling hooks you instantly. I hope to be as good as him.
My grandpa shared with Gay a lot of info that went into Honor Thy Father. He had a high regard for him as a writer.
wow! someone actually mentioned Canada while talking about WW2!
I'm going to become a great novelist wish me a luck.
best of luck
voιd ѕтar best of luck
*wishes you good luck*
Goodluck
Good luck ! I wanna become a writer too :)
Thank you, You gave me some very important information that i can use to complete my book!
this is so me. I like to write stories of different people, what their moods, thoughts culture in a way. So i kinda know what genre I would like. this is a good pointers.
LOVE this. Thank you for sharing this.
thank you Gay :) i can relate since I am also the daughter of immigrants and I was their translator since the age of about 7 so I learned to speak to different types of people.
very interesting! thanx
I want to write short comics but I cannot even draw a circle or a straight line sadly. I plan on writing out the arcs and stories and see if I can find someone who is open to doing it.
I have a great curiosity and idea and I am sure one day I will share the world ... I am coming writer ..thanks if you can to encourage me
Talk about taking the scenic route.
I seek authenticity when writing.
I have so much thought in my head I want tell people about how I feel and describe to them the story of my life I often have that feeling " I must write a book " but the problem is I don't know what are the characters which I'll use is there any roles in writing a book or it's just about writing all what it comes from my head I must learn more about the art of writing ❤
I'm going to be a writer!
A great 10 minutes by a great writer
I write all genres what ever I feel passionate I always wanted to be a writer since I was 14 26 years old now
I love writing
Do you need to do math to be an author in university and what coarse do you need to study and also what do you need to study
coarse=course and math not required.
He looks just like Charles Aznavour.
Wise words from a wise man
We can be best at writing psych-thriller .
Write.
I'm a writer
Gay knows how to give it straight!
wait who is he
📙💯
Many thanks, I been tryin to find out about "freelance writer degree" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Ever heard of - Fiyyan Freelance Fraternity - (should be on google have a look ) ? Ive heard some interesting things about it and my brother in law got excellent results with it.
Sire,
Sire,
please don’t call me a liar,
for I swear I have not destroyed your
pen outside of this beautiful empire.
I am your lord, Avoris,
and the truth of my pen,
I
aspire.
But please,
my lord,
my ruler,
my sire,
I do not know; I swear I do not know
where your pen is,
for I am no liar.
Liar,
liar,
but your clever lies,
I do admire,
but the truth of your treachery
I solely desire.
But what truth can I offer,
if I am no liar?
Why, your soul,
entire.
My soul entire?
For the truth you require?
How my soul,
do you expect to acquire?
Why,
gods,
rulers,
miracles
are my attire,
and so your soul,
with divine fire,
I will tire;
your soul,
in you,
the liar,
and I will witness your soul
retire.
Please,
my sire,
spare me this grief,
for I would never provoke
your ire.
I know it is you, Avoris,
my squire,
who stole my pen
for your own desire,
you stole it from me
when we passed that spire,
for it was your wish,
against me,
to conspire.
My lord,
my sovereign,
my sire,
I swear I did not take the pen,
I couldn’t have…
please believe that I am no liar.
I do care for you,
my squire,
but I do not believe that you are no
liar;
I see your lies
lifting you higher,
higher,
with your mind
on fire,
deep into my wrath,
entire.
I see your soul,
so dire,
surrounded by my divine slaves:
the gods,
the miracles,
all disguised as my attire…
Avoris,
let the truth transpire,
save your soul,
and for once…
be no liar.
Okay…
it was me who stole your pen,
but I did not destroy it in divine fire,
I couldn’t,
I wanted to but I couldn’t
because I lost it prior.
I know, Avoris,
I know you did not destroy my pen,
for I already have it back.
It came back to me, Avoris,
and it told me everything.
And that is how I knew you were a liar,
and now I shall take your soul,
and watch it burn
in divine fire.
I am a fiction writer - my name is Del
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Thank you for reading and I hope you
have a great day!
Many thanks, I have been researching "freelance writing definition" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about - Fiyyan Freelance Fraternity - (do a google search ) ? Ive heard some extraordinary things about it and my mate got cool results with it.
cool
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Somebody for gosh sakes take away this character's membership card for the tanning salon!!
I dont think is nice to call him gay. i used to think better of bigthink
Andrew Olsen All you managed to extract from this video was wether he is gay or not ? .... Lame and stupid act of yours
I think he was making a joke.
His first name is Gay...
seems like everyone picks on him for it... jerks
Uhhhh... Duhhhhh... His first name is Gay.
Cruel parents he had