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.

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.

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.