Gay Talese Quotes

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

Write your own stories.

I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

I think in most cases, when you're writing a song, you're just making up a little story, and you're not really thinking about making a point one way or another about it. You're just coming up with a little scenario and seeing it through, and that's it.

We're constantly trying to find the best way to tell the stories that we want.

Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.

I came up with a story and I wrote it.

I do see myself as someone who has a lot of story ideas.

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

I think there is often a 'what if' proposition that gets me thinking about all my novels.

I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot of it is imagination. It's not based on real people.

I think we all have a responsibility to tell good stories.

Each book first begins with a little idea.

The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.

My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off hundreds of other particles, riffs, tropes and characters.

I've always enjoyed making up stories, especially when I was bored and just sitting around. It got really serious after the children came along.

I just want to be a good storyteller.

Everything I do is just an opportunity to tell a great story.

To write a story is to create a world of your own.

A lot of directors understand everything but the story.