"I like nonfiction books about people with wretched…" — David Sedaris

"I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives."

— David Sedaris

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221 Quotes by David Sedaris

David Sedaris has 221 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

In Paris you're always surrounded by French people.
Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and…
Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic…
Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.
If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.
I always used to reach for the cigarette when the phone rang, and I figured nobody would ever call me…
I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to…
I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay,…
I just think that the people who say: 'That's not true' when someone tells a story at dinner are the…
I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like.
Each one of us is left to choose our own quality of life and take pleasure where we find it…
I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first…

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More Book Quotes

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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