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Writing Quotes by 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 put off writing…
- I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like.
- I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself.…
- The only real advice you can give anyone is to keep writing.
- I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.
- When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people…
- 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…
- I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.
- I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the…
- A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.
- Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into…
- 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…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov