David Sedaris
American writer and humorist
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Due to my general aversion to machines and a few prounounced episodes of screaming, I was labeled a technophobe, a word that ranks fairly low on my scale of fightin' words. The word phobic has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear, rather than good old fashioned loathing. No credit is give for distinguishing between these two very different emotions. I fear snakes. I hate computers.
—David Sedaris, American writer and humorist, Me Talk Pretty One Day, 2000
Posted on August 29, 2000 at 10:28 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
I started off my life in Paris by listening to American books on tape. . . Merle Haggard's My House of Memories, the diaries of Alan Bennett, Treasure Island: If a person who constantly reads is labeled a bookworm, then I was quickly becoming what might be called a tapeworm.
—David Sedaris, American writer and humorist, Me Talk Pretty One Day, 2000
Posted on October 5, 2000 at 11:50 AM
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