American - Writer | December 26, 1956 -
I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.
David Sedaris
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My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining.
FamilyMoreEntertainingWellMaybe
I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like.
WriteRightWhateverLikeAbout
I love 'Glee.' 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 writing is aware of itself, and that makes it okay to cry.
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I just think that the people who say: 'That's not true' when someone tells a story at dinner are the people who didn't get any laughs when they told their story.
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I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.
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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 in a story. She was worried people thought I didn't like her.
PeopleMeSisterStoryThoughtYou
I've been keeping diaries for 27 years.
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People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.
LiveMyselfCultureHatePeople
No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.
BetterTryEvenThanDialectShould
I like books on tape, and will listen to just about anything.
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I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.
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