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Augusten Burroughs

"As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward."

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"As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward."

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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

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"So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level."

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"Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism."

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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

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"Only being similar can encourage one to be different."

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"When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not."
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"And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing."
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"The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work."
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"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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"Reading takes solitude and it takes focus."
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"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."
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"I never listen to music when I write."
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"My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day."
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"Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space."
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"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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