Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.
From Augusten Burroughs
I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.
I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.
I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.
I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.
I love to both give and receive very old books.
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.
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.
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.
But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.
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