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David Sedaris on Writing

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

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“The only real advice you can give anyone is to keep writing.”
“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.”
“It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I realize that I was fooled into thinking I'd written the story. I hadn't — I had just typed for a long time. So then I have to carve out a story from the 25 or so pages. It's in there somewhere — but I have to find it.”
“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.”
“I'm glad that I didn't have the Internet when I started writing. I started writing when I was 20 and didn't show a word of it to anyone until I was 28. I had the sense to keep it to myself. Now the temptation with blogs and such, they're just getting it out there; maybe it would have been best to keep it to themselves.”
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