Augusten Burroughs Quotes

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.

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I love to both give and receive very old books.

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Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space.

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I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.

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When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

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But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

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I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.

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There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

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I never listen to music when I write.

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I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

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I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.

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I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time.

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But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.

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My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

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Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

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Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

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I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

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I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.

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So, really, if you think about it, the only thing that separates me from the guy with the stinky foot and no teeth is a book deal and some cologne.

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I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

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And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing.

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I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience.

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As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.

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Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.

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With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.

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