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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• Augusten Burroughs:

  I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and

• Augusten Burroughs:

  I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for

• Augusten Burroughs:

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

• Augusten Burroughs:

  I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outs

• Augusten Burroughs:

  I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you did

• Augusten Burroughs:

  I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many

• Augusten Burroughs:

  I never listen to music when I write.

• Augusten Burroughs:

  I love to both give and receive very old books.

• Augusten Burroughs:

  I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know t

• Augusten Burroughs:

  I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great book