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From an interview with Gay Talese in the Paris Review:
INTERVIEWER
How does your writing day begin?
TALESE
Usually I wake up in bed with my wife. I don’t want to have breakfast with anyone. So I go from the third floor, which is our bedroom, to the fourth floor, where I keep my clothes. I get dressed as if I’m going to an office. I wear a tie.
INTERVIEWER
Cuff links?
TALESE
Yes. I dress as if I’m going to an office in midtown or on Wall Street or at a law firm, even though what I am really doing is going downstairs to my bunker. In the bunker there’s a little refrigerator, and I have orange juice and muffins and coffee. Then I change my clothes.
INTERVIEWER
Again?
TALESE
That’s right. I have an ascot and sweaters. I have a scarf.
The complete interview is at http://www.theparisreview.org/viewinterview.php/prmMID/5925
INTERVIEWER
How does your writing day begin?
TALESE
Usually I wake up in bed with my wife. I don’t want to have breakfast with anyone. So I go from the third floor, which is our bedroom, to the fourth floor, where I keep my clothes. I get dressed as if I’m going to an office. I wear a tie.
INTERVIEWER
Cuff links?
TALESE
Yes. I dress as if I’m going to an office in midtown or on Wall Street or at a law firm, even though what I am really doing is going downstairs to my bunker. In the bunker there’s a little refrigerator, and I have orange juice and muffins and coffee. Then I change my clothes.
INTERVIEWER
Again?
TALESE
That’s right. I have an ascot and sweaters. I have a scarf.
The complete interview is at http://www.theparisreview.org/viewinterview.php/prmMID/5925
