Writing Quotes by David Sedaris

I don't like travelling if I know I have to write about it.

— David Sedaris

Most people, or at least most of the people that I've come into contact with, would like to be written about.

— David Sedaris

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the…

— David Sedaris

Maybe one day, I would write a story about arguing in public, and those would come in handy in some way.

— David Sedaris

Write relentlessly, until you find your voice. Then, use it.

— David Sedaris

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

— David Sedaris

There are lots of things that happen to me that I don't write about.

— David Sedaris

I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like.

— David Sedaris

There is a reason there is no such thing as a folk writer. But to be a writer you have learn what…

— David Sedaris

I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me…

— David Sedaris

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had…

— David Sedaris

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

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

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their…

— David Sedaris

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

— David Sedaris

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you…

— David Sedaris

I think if you write humor, then people don't - you know - they don't give you that much credit. They tend…

— David Sedaris

Sometimes you read something and it's just -- it doesn't invite a reader…Sometimes you read something and it's not saying, 'oh come…

— David Sedaris

I'm friends with a lot of writers and so many of them say how much they hate signings and how they leave…

— David Sedaris

“Behind the naive vanities, the daydreams, they had very badly wanted to be writers. Had wanted it without knowing at all what…

— David Sedaris

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

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

I don't worry about being exposed. When I'm writing about myself I think about myself as a character. There is a ton…

— David Sedaris

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

I'm so old that when I started keeping a diary they were in actual books, and I think that's one the reasons…

— David Sedaris

Writing helped to have jobs that involved running around, pushing things like dish carts and wheelbarrows. It would be hard to sit…

— David Sedaris

When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure…

— David Sedaris

She's afraid to tell me anything important, knowing I'll only turn around and write about it. In my mind, I'm like a…

— David Sedaris

The only real advice you can give anyone is to keep writing.

— David Sedaris

“It really is torture to sit around the house and write all day. I’m thinking it might motivate me to finish the…

— David Sedaris

“The way I saw it, if my students were willing to pretend I was a teacher, the least I could do was…

— David Sedaris

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

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

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

It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he…

— David Sedaris

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

I think I became a better writer after I started writing for the New Yorker. Well, I know I did. And part…

— David Sedaris

I like high school and college writing textbooks and find them very helpful. Whenever I'm stuck and seem to have no ideas,…

— David Sedaris

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

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