694 Quotes by David Sedaris

If you are any kind of an artist, then validation . . . can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway.

Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.

The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you’re a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence.

Because I've always been a fairly nervous person.

I don't like to read anything on the radio for the very first time, because I don't have any notion of a reaction. When I read it out loud, then I get an idea of that, and more of an idea of how to read.

I like high school and college writing textbooks and find them very helpful. Whenever I'm stuck and seem to have no ideas, I open one up and turn to the back. There I'll find questions like, "Have you had any experiences with an alcoholic or a sailor?"

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

I've maintained old friendships, like with people I knew in the nineteen-seventies, but have lost the knack for meeting new people. This has a lot to do with my writing schedule. I don't want to be disturbed, and the willingness to be disturbed is, I think, part of being a good friend.

I always knew I wanted it to be illustrated.