Home / Quotes / Quote by David Sedaris

Quote by David Sedaris

“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.”

Quote by David Sedaris

Author

David Sedaris, born on December 26, 1956, is an American humorist. His works are known for their unique sense of humor and profound insights into everyday life. Sedaris' writing often takes the form of memoir, narrating his personal experiences and observations. more

You May Also Like

“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."”

“It makes me wonder sometimes. Remember a couple years ago, when Mexicans went on strike? It was talked about a little bit but not that much. But some old white people, and there aren't even that many, they put bonnets on, and then they control the news.”

People Years Littles Sometimes Remember Bits White Wonder Couple Little Bit News Years Ago Strikes Bonnets

Author:David Sedaris

“It didn't seem fair to me that Jon Stewart's rally didn't get the same kind of attention that Glenn Beck's did. Why was Beck's seen as checking the thermometer of the country, and Jon Stewart just dismissed as a satirist?”

Kind Country Seems Attention Fairs Satirist Thermometers

Author:David Sedaris

“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.”

Want Persons Said Book Wanted Beautiful Nice Events Deny Awful Disagree Trusted They Said Hideous Really Nice Bookstores Palin

Author:David Sedaris

“It wasn't a direct route. I began as a freelance reporter. That's an important distinction, because people who rise through the ranks of The New York Times become vetted, conditioned, harassed, and shaped by the institution. That never happened to me.”

People Important Happened New York Direct Institutions Distinction Reporters Routes New York Times

Author:Chris Hedges

“In my second year of Harvard Divinity School, where I was studying to be a minister like my father, I met a guy named Robert Cox, who had been the editor of the Buenos Aires Herald during the Dirty War in Argentina. Bob used to print the names of those who had been disappeared the day before, above the fold in his newspaper. It was a kind of an awakening to me to see what great journalism can and should do.”

Should Years Kind War School Used Guy Father Names Study Mets Awakening Newspapers Journalism Dirty Ministers Divinity Print Editors Bob Folds Harvard Argentina Buenos Aires

Author:Chris Hedges

“In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.”

Men Enemy Forgiveness Anger Revenge Passing Superiors Passings Best Revenge Exacting Revenge Revenge Is Sweet Passing It Taking Revenge

Book:The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes

Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes

“The New York Times is an institution that attracts careerists, who are drawn to power and access. This gave me a kind of a free hand. The kind of work that I wanted to do, most of the other reporters didn't want to do. I was not doing lunch. I was not sucking up to officials. I was writing from the street.”

Want Writing Kind Hands Wanted Streets New York Institutions Access Officials Lunch Reporters New York Times

Author:Chris Hedges

“I do believe that the collapse of the traditional media is catastrophic for our democracy, but I wasn't about to mythologize it. I understand its structural flaws, and the lies it tells, which are primarily, but not always, the lies of omission, and I wasn't going to leave that out. Knopf offered to publish the book but they said that an editor was going to "take out all the negativity," which, of course, I wasn't going to accept. I had been paid half my advance, and I had Nation Books buy the manuscript for that half.”

Believe Said Book Lying Courses Nations Half Accepting Democracy Media Paid Traditional Flaws Editors Collapse Negativity They Said Publish Manuscripts Omission

Author:Chris Hedges

“When you have a liberal class that no longer functions, when those people who traditionally defend and care about a civil society no longer do so, then you cede power to very frightening, deformed figures, all of which we are watching leap up around the fringes of our political establishment - this lunatic fringe, which has largely taken over the Republican Party.”

People Care Political Party Class Taken Figures Republican Function Leap Establishment Frightening Republican Party Fringe Lunatic Civil Society

Author:Chris Hedges