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Write Quotes by David Sedaris
- I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like.
- I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.
- It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I realize…
- When I taught, a lot of my students weren't big readers, so they would write something and I realized that they thought it belonged in…
- I tend to write things seven times before I show them to my editor. I write them seven times, then I take them on tour,…
- I met a young woman the other day, and she said, what advice would you have for a writer, and I said it would be…
- 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 often there'll be…
- When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure the wretchedness of…
- At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface.
- 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 friendly junkman, building…
- My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six months ago and said she wanted to be…
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