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.
David SedarisWhen forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure the wretchedness of passing through the X-ray scanner. The laptops roll merrily down the belt, while Iโm instructed to stand aside and open my bag. To me it seems like a normal enough thing to be carrying, but the typewriterโs declining popularity arouses suspicion and I wind up eliciting the sort of reaction one might expect when traveling with a cannon. Itโs a typewriter,โ I say. โYou use it to write angry letters to airport security.
David SedarisBesides, if I wanted to hear people speaking wall-to-wall French, all I had to do was remove my headphones and participate in what is known as โreal life,โ a concept as uninviting as a shampoo cocktail.
David Sedaris