Whenever I write about my family, I start by getting my parent`s approval. I like to think I write about them with… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I think if you write humor, then people don't - you know - they don't give you that much credit. They tend… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Maybe one day, I would write a story about arguing in public, and those would come in handy in some way. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I love 'Glee.' I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The difference between writing where you know where to draw the line and writing where you're being way too mean is whether… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I started typing diary in, I don't know, 1978 or '79, but then the computer changed that a lot. Because with the… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I don't write about sex because it's not really my subject. I love it when other people write about it, but it's… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I mean, I'm always happy if I have, like, humiliating asshole things that I did. I think: Oh good, that's a good… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
All of a sudden, when you're exposed to a large audience, they think you just started writing that day, but I started… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“Behind the naive vanities, the daydreams, they had very badly wanted to be writers. Had wanted it without knowing at all what… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I'm glad that I didn't have the Internet when I started writing. I started writing when I was 20 and didn't show… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I've maintained old friendships, like with people I knew in the nineteen-seventies, but have lost the knack for meeting new people. This… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid to write about madness. I always figure that whatever most embarrasses you is something that everyone can relate to,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I met a young woman the other day, and she said, what advice would you have for a writer, and I said… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
When I taught, a lot of my students weren't big readers, so they would write something and I realized that they thought… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“Plenty of animals had pets, but few were more devoted than the mouse, who owned a baby corn snake—“A rescue snake, she’d be quick… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“never fall asleep in a Dumpster, never underestimate a bee, never drive a convertible behind a flatbed truck, never get old, never get drunk… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“It was a father, one hand resting teapot-style on his hip, and the other - what would be the spout - formed into a… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“A Japanese woman we’d met in Paris came to the apartment yesterday and spent several hours explaining our appliances. The microwave, the water kettle,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
One thing I like about the United States, and I kind of miss about the United States, is there's an election coming up here… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“You have how many children in your family?" the teacher would ask. "I'm guessing you must be Catholic, am I right?” — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“Like most seasoned phonies, I roundly suspect that everyone is as disingenuous as I am.” — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“You just take and take don´t you? Out there with your thumb in the air—not a care in the world, just grabbing whatever you… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
My boyfriend got me a computer three years ago. I'll admit it does make things a lot easier. When I was working on a… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
