I’m not a professional
I’m not a professional comedian. Nobody comes to my comedy shows. That’s just a little hobby. David Rees
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I’m not a professional comedian. Nobody comes to my comedy shows. That’s just a little hobby. David Rees
I’d always been really intimidated by prose writing. David Rees
I didn’t dare to dream of making money. But now of course, I’ve made many thousands of dollars sharpening pencils. David Rees
I liked sharpening pencils and I was like, Oh, I wonder if I could get paid to do it. And I figured it out and I did it. David Rees
I talked to people in the pencil industry and I talked to people as I was sharpening their pencils about the frustrations they have with pencils, so I really did do my research and I do know more about pencils than most people. David Rees
I started sharpening pencils at the census and how that was a difficult time in my life because my marriage was ending and I had quit cartooning and I didn’t know what to do with myself. David Rees
I assumed that the pencil market was collapsing, but then it turns out that from 2010 to 2011 in the United States, pencil consumption went up by over six percent. I mean, those are all foreign-made pencils. Those are probably Chinese pencils, mostly, and Mexican pencils. I mean, it is an archaic communication technology, but … Read more
I had good relationships with stores. And I was like, All right, I’ll self-publish it. But I’m only going to do 1,000. David Rees
I hate self-publishing; it’s a real drag and it takes up a lot of space. David Rees
I just wanted a really simple, dramatic way so that fans, people who were reading my comic, would be like, This is something different. Just to flag it, almost. David Rees