Top 44 Quotes by David Rakoff

About David Rakoff

These are some quotes by Canadian author David Rakoff Writer, who lived between November 27, 1964 and August 9, 2012.

When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're an actor, no one wants to hear what you think.

When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're an actor, no one wants to hear what you think.

David Rakoff

I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for me to say if I have been successful at it. But that is the hope.

I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for me to say if I have been successful at it. But that is the hope.

David Rakoff

Unless one is planning to go shopping - basically begging to be smothered by the ravening throngs of returners and bargain hunters; an embrace as constricting as that hugging machine designed by autistic author Temple Grandin - then Boxing Day feels like a bar after last call when the lights have been turned up.

David Rakoff

I cannot escape the feeling that I was, at best, a cancer tourist, that my survival means I dabbled.

I cannot escape the feeling that I was, at best, a cancer tourist, that my survival means I dabbled.

David Rakoff

At least three times a week, I am overwhelmed with a wave of gratitude to New York City for providing me with a life. Not that my life is so great, although I think it's pretty nifty: I don't mine coal; I get paid to write.

David Rakoff

I'm anti-religious. I don't like people telling me what to do.

I'm anti-religious. I don't like people telling me what to do.

David Rakoff

I'm not sure. But that bless-his/her-heart kind of melancholic humor is among my favorite things in the world. I guess it exposes a kind of humanity - or that's the hope, at least - a kind of grudging respect for human frailty. Unless it's actually kicking human frailty while it's down - I'm not sure.

David Rakoff

I am the world's worst reporter. I am apt to try too hard to help rather than just document my subjects.

I am the world's worst reporter. I am apt to try too hard to help rather than just document my subjects.

David Rakoff

Here's the thing: I'm not beautiful. I mean, I'm a perfectly normal-looking Jewish guy. My face has never been my fortune, nor has my body... physical beauty has never been part of my equation. It's just not on my shopping list.

David Rakoff

I had a beautiful childhood and a lovely childhood. I just didn't like being a child. I didn't like the rank injustice of not being listened to. I didn't like the lack of autonomy.

I had a beautiful childhood and a lovely childhood. I just didn't like being a child. I didn't like the rank injustice of not being listened to. I didn't like the lack of autonomy.

David Rakoff

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