Augusten Burroughs Want Quotations

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

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

He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa.

Because here is the truth: If you want to have a chance at meeting somebody with whom you are genuinely compatible, never put your best foot forward.

What nobody understood then is this: The only way that you achieve what you want and fulfill your dreams and become great is by demanding that sort of attention. You have to make it happen.