Augusten Burroughs Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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