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
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. – David Sedaris
To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don’t see how that’s big news. – David Sedaris
Sometimes I say to myself, ‘Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award’, although I’m not that bothered. – David Sedaris
When you read comic material and people aren’t laughing how do you know they’re listening. – David Sedaris
The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons. – David Sedaris
I love getting attention, just like a child loves it, and it’s never worn off. So when people say, oh the book signings go on, why would I shoo away someone who’s giving me attention? What part of standing in line for 10 hours to say how much they love you is bad to you? – David Sedaris
But I don’t distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I’ll take either. – David Sedaris
I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the ‘Harry Potter’ books. – David Sedaris
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
I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later. – David Sedaris
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 OK to cry. – David Sedaris
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
I’ve always been very upfront about the way I write, and I’ve always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration. – David Sedaris
They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity. – David Sedaris
Sometimes with ‘The New Yorker,’ they have grammar rules that just don’t feel right in my mouth. – David Sedaris
I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me. – David Sedaris
