Gay Talese Quotes

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.

I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching.

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day.

I want to go to college. I'm going to take four years off. I don't want to miss that. I want to be a writer. I think that'd be awesome.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.

I was taught Shakespeare brilliantly by an eccentric genius at Harrow named Jeremy Lemmon who made me want to be a writer.

In junior high, I was still writing poems and stories. In college, I was a journalism major. When I got out of college, I went to work for an educational publisher, so I was still writing, developing curriculums.

If you want to study writing, read Dickens

As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.

I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited to study journalism in college. I love editorials and documentaries. All of that came from being given the opportunity to lose myself in good writing when I was a kid.

I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.

I have a huge passion for literature.

My mother taught me how to write.