Top 59 Quotes by David Sedaris

I just think that the people who say: 'That's not true' when someone tells a story at dinner are the people who didn't get any laughs when they told their story.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

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.

Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.

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

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.

The only real advice you can give anyone is to keep writing.

Because I've always been a fairly nervous person.

When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening.