David Sedaris Quotes

I've been writing since I was about thirteen but didn't start a book until 2007. I spent four years writing a sci-fi novel before I wrote 'The Bone Season' at nineteen.

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

I was very fortunate that my first novel captivated the imaginations of so many readers who asked for a sequel. After that, one book led to another as I discovered other facets to my characters I wanted to investigate further.

I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.

I finished my first novel - it was around 300 pages long - when I was 16. Wrote one more before I got out of high school, then wrote the first Lincoln Perry novel when I was 19. It didn't sell, but I liked the character and I knew the world so I tried what was, in my mind, a sequel. Wrote that when I was 20, and that one made it.

In my brief writing life, it means I am still lucky that I have at least one more novel to complete. I do not expect that a story will arrive just because it is time to write another novel. It doesn't happen that way.

I'm remembering one book that I wrote, 'Fourth Grade Rats,' that took a month to write, but most of them, full-length novels, I would say about a year.

My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment.

You write, hoping to write a good book; that's it.

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

I really absolutely loved writing my first book.

I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

I'd never have written the big books in London.

At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.

Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating.

I'm just going to write the best books I can.

I don't think there was a time I ever thought of myself as anything but a writer. I thought I was going to be the next Toni Morrison.

I spent six years after my first novel and five years after my second without getting into a new book.

I started writing in 1948 - basically.

I think 'Hollow City' only took a year and a half to write... but it felt like two and a half!