“I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.”
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David Raymond Sedaris is an American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor
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“I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.”
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“I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a...”
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“As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.”
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“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.”
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“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 c...”
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“I love 'Glee.'”
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“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.”
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“But most good movies have a gun in them.”
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“But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.”
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“I always knew I wanted it to be illustrated.”
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“I sometimes read books on my iPad.”
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“I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.”
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“I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.”
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“I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.”
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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...”
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“Actually I liked that 'Let the Right One In,' that Swedish vampire movie.”
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“I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.”
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“Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered.”
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“I've never gone on Facebook and am not sure I understand it. The same goes for Twitter. I have someone sending tweets and pretending to be me, but I don't know why.”
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