"I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I……" — David Sedaris

I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be… - David Sedaris

"I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter."

— 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 Humorist Quotes

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Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. — Ambrose Bierce
HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss… — Ambrose Bierce
I remember what J. Golden Kimball said when he came down to the stake where I was presiding. I introduced… — Hugh B. Brown
Today the outlandish becomes routine overnight. The humorist is trying to say that it's still outlandish. — William Zinsser
In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness… — Vincent Canby
I did not intend to write a funny book, at first. I did not know I was a humorist. I… — Jerome K. Jerome
How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary? — Norman Rockwell
A heartwarming tale of Christmas past that's chock full of all the wit and hilarity we admire in America's favorite… — Gilbert King
If I get big laughs, I'm a comedian. If I get little laughs, I'm a humorist. If I get no… — George Burns
The American humorist sat on his couch suffering thoughts of her, trying to figure out how to win back her… — Richard Brautigan
Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a… — Garrison Keillor
Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we… — Thomas Carlyle

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