American - Writer | October 23, 1965 -
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.
Augusten Burroughs
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My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.
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I love to both give and receive very old books.
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Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.
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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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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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There's never a false note in a Berg novel.
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Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.
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My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.
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Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.
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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 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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