The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with your fingers or you type on your laptop, but you need to have a limber mind and you need to be able to write without judging what you've written, at least right away, and without editing right away.
Augusten BurroughsI was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.
Augusten BurroughsI sit there and think how it isn't fair that I can't drink at all, even a little. I realize I have crammed an entire lifetime of moderate drinking into a decade of hard-core drinking and that is why. I blew my wad.
Augusten BurroughsI 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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