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  • There's no such thing as a folk writer. There's no such thing as somebody who's never read a book before suddenly sitting down one day and writing one. You have to learn how to captivate a reader. Right? And I don't mean you have to go to school for it. But if you're - if you pay attention, you can learn it by reading books. And so I feel like I learned a lot by reading books.

    "David Sedaris On The Life-Altering And Mundane Pages Of His Old Diaries". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 31, 2017.