Augusten Burroughs Quotes

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

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

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

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• Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

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• There’s never a false note in a Berg novel.

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• The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It’s not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

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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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• 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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  I myself am entirely made of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

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Birth:	23rd October, 1965
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Essayist, Memoirist, Writer, Screenwriter

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