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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...book that she gave you the gift of grace. Right. It's not the book I thought I would write. I thought I would write something that was just funny. But I don't have control over that; my subconscious does the writing. And I like it better than I would have, I think. It's got some stories in there that are a little heavy for holiday reading. But holidays are a heavy, heavy time. We make light of them with our red and green and our stockings and candy canes, but people think heavy thoughts over the holidays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author Augusten Burroughs | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...read an interview from 2006 in which you said you felt like you were done writing about your own life. Oh, you know us memoirists. All we do is lie. I hate saying it, because it's going to sound awful: "Memoirist Says Writing 'Cathartic.' " But it is. I definitely want to write novels, but I seem to have to continue to process these other events. My next book is not a novel, but it's also not a memoir. It's a very different book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author Augusten Burroughs | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...more? No, because it's a surprise. If I told you, you'd be horrified. It's going to be good. It's the book I was born to write. (See the top 10 YouTube holiday specials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author Augusten Burroughs | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...obviously, I guess, that's not true because there are a bunch of memoirs that [were falsified]. They must have had something in there that rang true to people, like good novels. I haven't even read any of those memoirs. I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers. (See the top 10 literary hoaxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author Augusten Burroughs | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

Does being set in your ways extend to your writing process? I would imagine so. I never question the way I write. Writing is the only thing that's without seams for me. It's an effort to talk because my pictures have to be turned into these sounds. It's an effort to be alive. It's work. But writing is wonderful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author Augusten Burroughs | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

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