Early Observations of David Sedaris

“I stayed up all night and worked on my new story. Unfortunately, I write like I paint, one corner at a time. I can never step back and see the whole picture. Instead, I concentrate on a little square and realize later that it looks nothing like the real live object. Maybe it’s my strength, and I’m the only one who can see it.” 

From a diary entry dated October 17, 1985 in “Theft by Finding” by David Sedaris; Photo by Jeffrey Jenkins in Sedaris’s Raleigh, NC apartment in 1980 

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