David Sedaris Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

  David Sedaris

  Book, Writing, Years

• Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read.

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  Lying, Real, Book

  "Loggerheads" by David Sedaris, www.newyorker.com. December 7, 2009.

• 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.

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  Book, School, Adventure

• In New York I'd go to the movies three or four times a week. Here I've upped it to six or seven, mainly because I'm too lazy to do anything else. Fortunately, going to the movies seems to suddenly qualify as an intellectual accomplishment, on a par with reading a book or devoting time to serious thought. It's not that the movies have gotten any more strenuous, it's just that a lot of people are as lazy as I am, and together we've agreed to lower the bar.

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  New York, Book, Reading

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

• I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

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  Book, Listening, Would Be

  Interview with The New York Times, www.nytimes.com. April 12, 2012.

• I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

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  Book, People, Fiction And Nonfiction

• I sometimes read books on my iPad.

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  Book, Ipads, Sometimes

• In books and movies infidelity always looks so compelling, so right. Here are people who defy petty convention and are rewarded with only the tastiest bits of human experience.

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  Book, People, Infidelity

  David Sedaris (2010). “When You Are Engulfed In Flames”, p.139, Hachette UK

• I'm so old that when I started keeping a diary they were in actual books, and I think that's one the reasons that I've never written about sex. Because early on you had to worry that someone was going to find your diary, so it's bad enough to be writing like Joan Didion, but writing like Joan Didion about sex acts you'd performed with somebody you had known for 20 minutes, that's a bit worse. So I would write in my diary, "I met J. and we had sex five times last night." But I would never write about what we did.

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  Book, Writing, Night

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I like books on tape, and will listen to just about anything.

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  Book, Tape

• I like listening to books as well, as that way you can iron at the same time.

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  Book, Iron, Listening

• There's no such thing as a folk writer. There's no such thing as somebody who's never read a book before suddenly sitting down one day and writing one. You have to learn how to captivate a reader. Right? And I don't mean you have to go to school for it. But if you're - if you pay attention, you can learn it by reading books. And so I feel like I learned a lot by reading books.

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  Reading, Book, Writing

  "David Sedaris On The Life-Altering And Mundane Pages Of His Old Diaries". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 31, 2017.

• I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.

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  Book, People, Sitting

• When someone tell me they illegally downloaded one of my audiobooks I think, Thanks a lot, Pal. When someone tells me they checked my book out of the library, I'm delighted. I've always been a big library user, and feel a kinship with others who do the same thing.

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  Book, Thinking, Library

  "Ask the Author Live: David Sedaris". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. August 14, 2009.

• There are certain people in my life who didn't care to be in my book. And so I cut them out. And I had broken up with somebody. And I was, you know, really upset and depressed. And so that was, you know, reasons to keep going.

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  Book, Cutting, People

  Source: www.npr.org

• It is never appropriate to comment on a woman's breasts. I would never do it on the street or at a supermarket, but when I'm sitting a table signing books, sometimes I notice that a woman will have remarkable breasts. And I will maybe quietly say something about it. It's not in a sexual way, because I'm a gay man - I would never say to a man "great ass" because that would be sort of creepy.. I hope it's not creepy to quietly tell a woman she has nice breasts.

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  Nice, Book, Gay

• I would still be reading out loud. I think that if you are any kind of an artist, then validation is just sort of... it can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway. Because you're just wired that way. It's so engrained, it's such a part of your personality that you don't just stop doing it. Eventually I'll retire on some level, eventually no one will want to buy my books or a ticket to see me read, it's inevitable that's going to happe

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  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. October 8, 2014.

• Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.

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  Book, Audio, Lovers

  "The Year in Reading: David Sedaris" by David Sedaris, www.newyorker.com. December 13, 2010.

• I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.

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  Book, Writing, Twenties

• When I taught, a lot of my students weren't big readers, so they would write something and I realized that they thought it belonged in a book. Like, they didn't know what the inside of a book looked like, you know what I mean?

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  Book, Writing, Mean

• We're not unique in our family. We're more ambitious but we're not special. I'm not funnier than anyone else in my family; it's just that we wanted more than Raleigh, North Carolina, had to offer. If my brother wanted more than Raleigh had to offer, you would know his name. My sister Lisa has a really unique and different voice, but she doesn't want that. She's a fine writer, but never said, "I want a book. I want that kind of attention."

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  Brother, Book, Unique

• I like the trail that the Internet created. For example, I was watching one of those Douglas Sirk movies, and I noticed that Rock Hudson towered over everyone, and I typed in "How tall was" and I saw "How tall was Jesus," and I'm like, "Sure," and half an hour later you're somewhere you didn't expect to be. It doesn't work that same way in books, does it? Even if you have an encyclopedia, the trail isn't that crazy. I like that aspect of it.

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  Jesus, Crazy, Book

• Someone told me something recently about Sarah Palin, someone I trusted in the book business. They said, "I worked with Palin. She did an event at my bookstore, and she was really, really nice, and even more beautiful in person." I didn't want to hear that. I wanted to hear that she was awful and hideous-looking. But I thought, I have to listen to that. I have to hear that. I don't want to be the one who is going to deny anything complimentary said about somebody just because I disagree with that person.

  David Sedaris

  Beautiful, Nice, Book

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