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Augusten Burroughs

"I never listen to music when I write."

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Donna Grant

"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

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Donna Grant

"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

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Donna Grant

"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."

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Donna Grant

"I listen to music constantly while writing."

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Donna Grant

"Music is the song of eternal love which touches the soul and fills us with joy."

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Donna Grant

"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."

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Donna Grant

"Music is the language of the universe, which everyone, including all animals, can understand."

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Donna Grant

"Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once."

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Donna Grant

"Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do."

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Donna Grant

"Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune."

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

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

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Augusten Burroughs
"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."

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

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Augusten Burroughs
"But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago."

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Augusten Burroughs
"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 knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen."

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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 a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time."

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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 have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience."

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Augusten Burroughs
"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."

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