Augusten Burroughs

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

— Augusten Burroughs

#chicago #favorite #life #out

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

— Augusten Burroughs

#chair #crappy #dentist #i #i can

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. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#childhood #depraved #drawn #extreme #happened

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#before #definitely #i #memoir #read

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. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#be nice #because #bills #eat #entire

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. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#agents #allow #being #discouraged #either

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

— Augusten Burroughs

#listen #npr #tend #writing

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. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#court #court tv #day #end #everything

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. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#desperate #hunger #i #know #like

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

— Augusten Burroughs

#going #interesting #long #marriage #overdone