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I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.'

~David Sedaris

Topics: Call Calling Felt Like Myself New New Yorker Now Okay Started Then Uncomfortable Until Writer Yorker You Yourself

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If I'm riding my bike I just replay the same scenarios over and over in my head, like I haven't had a new mental adventure since high school. So that's what I like about books on tape, so my mind can't wander anywhere.

~David Sedaris

Topics: About Adventure Anywhere Bike Books Had Head High High School Just Like Mental Mind New Over Riding Same Scenarios School Since Tape Wander

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

~David Sedaris

Topics: About Happen Lots Me Things Write

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Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered.

~David Sedaris

Topics: Although Award Bothered Could Myself Oh Say Sometimes Tony Win Wish I Wish

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I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.

~David Sedaris

Topics: Afternoon Became Day Did Ever Every Every Day First Force Had Identity Myself Part Since Started Then Thinking Twenty Without Writing Written

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As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.

~David Sedaris

Topics: Foreigner Foreigners Like London Many Other

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I don't have email.

~David Sedaris

Topics: Email

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To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.

~David Sedaris

Topics: Big Exaggerate Get How Humorist Laughs News Say See

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I think it's important to take chances.

~David Sedaris

Topics: Chances Important Take Think I Think

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I love 'Glee.'

~David Sedaris

Topics: Glee Love I Love

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 26th, 1956

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