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David Sedaris Quotes

There are lots of things that happen to me that I don't write about.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: December 26, 1956

Topics

Me Write Happen Things About Lots

I feel like the kind of people I write about are the kind of people I grew up with, the families that I know in my community. Most everyone is working-class, and there are some intact families, but a lot of families aren't.

Community People Feel Know Kind Up

I'm into exploring the fringes of a culture.

Culture Exploring

I am, as are most writers, just hugely obsessive, and so are many of my closest friends, who tend to be writers or scientists. It's a trait of human nature that I'm particularly in touch with. So I tend to project it onto my characters.

Nature I Am Friends Human Nature Who

I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.

Good Beginning Yourself People You

More than reading - much more than reading, in fact - I developed a love for telling stories from listening to two parents who really knew how to do it. And it really is an art.

Love Art Parents Listening Reading

I know Jesus Christ died for my sins, and that's all I really need to know.

Know Jesus Christ Need Christ Jesus

I won't be able to live without my guitar, my phone or my boots on tour.

Live Guitar Boots Phone Without

Film is a strange thing.

Strange Film Thing Strange Thing

When I am shooting, I am inside the theatre, when I am in the editing room, I am inside the theatre. I always try to feel what they will feel. I see a film, not as a director, but as the audience. If I am entertained, they will be, too.

I Am Theatre Feel Editing Will Try

You grow as a writer when you learn how to make songs flow from start to finish. That's the best song, when it's such a seamless process to get to this release at the chorus, this euphoric feeling. That's why the Beatles were so good - they did such a good job building so much tension in the beginning to this immaculate release, and then it ends.

Good Best Job Beginning Song Start

I love fighting as much as I can and as often as possible.

Love Fighting I Can Possible Much

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.

Singing Voice Problem Apology

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