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


Augusten Burroughs

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All that I have done will be remembered when I am all said and done.
TRUMAINE M. PRESSLEY Im okay Im okay now.
But you really need to listen to me
'cause im telling you the trut...
GERARD WAY dont read my diary when im gone, ok im going to work now , when you wake up please read my diary, lo...
KURT COBAIN i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because i...
S. E. HINTON I feel that the 200 IM is his signature event and he deserves to be able to do it without a 200 back...
BOB BOWMAN Im A Good Friend, But Im A Better Enemy.
DONALD C HALL Im James Bond. Im Jason Bourne. Im Super-freaking-Mario come to life.
JOHN DAVID ANDERSON I mumble a lot when im off stage, so a lot of times when im with a friend i'll say something and he'...
MITCH HEDBERG Im a soulless lawyer. Give me any opinion and I can argue it.
MEGYN KELLY if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I'm definitely of the 'Harry Potter'-transfigured-me-into-a-reader-and-writer generation...
ADAM SILVERA when i meet someone new they tell me that im crazy or that i need personal and that im the weirdest ...
DALLY SALAD Im trending therefore I am.
EDWARD SQUIRE I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and ...
GARTH STEIN If you would be a reader, read; if a writer,write
EPICTETUS Freiheit ist etwas Maßloses. Im Guten wie im Schlechten.
CARSTEN K. RATH I definitely want to act and I want to sing. If those two fall through, I want to become a writer, p...
CASSIE STEELE A Bullet is a man, from time to time he strays, I compare my life to this, To this I relate. And Im ...
CHRIS CORNELL I realize im black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybodys wish.
MICHAEL JORDAN i can go on all day pretending to be happy an fooling the world and leave you wondiring when im gone...
AMBER FAITH HUN Im not a politician and my other habits are good. Ive no enemys to reward, nor friends to sponge. Bu...
ARTEMUS WARD Im looking for a girl who's fun to be around.
ROSS LYNCH This weird separation of e-mail and IM didn't seem good to us. It's definitely a problem we all have...
KEITH COLEMAN Im for rules but when rules conflicts humanity i will stand against it at all cost
MICHAEL STRONG Don't run away.
Im not running away. Im already gone.
-Lena and Ethan
KAMI GARCIA I'm baking an apple pie tonight, and I dont care Mr.Carb.. Im eating it at 10pm with ice cream,. Tak...
NERISSA IRVING You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.
CASSANDRA CLARE im the one who has to die when its time for me to die. so let me live my life the way i want to
LIL WAYNE I don't know limits, that's why I'am infinite and even when im gone I will still remain Sun
DALADIER We do not have federated IM. We firmly believe you need a separate channel from any public IM system...
BOB SHIMP I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first sto...
SIDNEY SHELDON Im proud that Im a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a poli...
HARRY S TRUMAN Never felt lyk im alone bcoz my soul always follows me dats wat make me feel im not alone & I"ll nev...
RAKSHAN BHANDARY Im still runnin against the wind
Well Im older now and still
Against the wind
BOB SEGER Burroughs was a very political writer.
KATHY ACKER One, two, three, Im gon be crazy and free.
NICK My words control your body and your mind like a symbiot im a phenominon i had to interpose
NOBLE DA GENIUS We've felt for sometime that IM is next big wave. If you claim to offer a total messaging solution, ...
CHRIS CHRISTIANSEN The benefits of IM are undeniable for businesses, yet the security risks and challenges are paramoun...
CHRIS SHIPLEY Life is Like a Piano,, and Im Playing Beethoven...
KALUM JOHNSON (KDOG) Im very nurturing.
TAMARA ECCLESTONE Im going to be eighty soon, and I guess the one thing that puzzles me most is how quick it got here.
ROY ACUFF the difference between me and everyone else is....i know im crazi
NICK HILL I would be so mad if I saw something called a memoir, and then it was Mike Birbiglia. It would be so...
MIKE BIRBIGLIA When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catc...
TAYARI JONES Today's college graduates take IM in the office for granted. If you protect your email systems but i...
ED GOLOD I dont really think its all that settled yet, ... Weve got a good group of guys, though. Im sure eve...
AARON KATZ Okay.
JOHN GREEN Note To Kids: I Never Drunk Alcohol,, Smoked or did Drugs and Im Still Cool..
KALUM JOHNSON (KDOG) A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.
GERARD DE MARIGNY Im going to use you and abuse you a distortion of the truth!
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER Im a trackstar running thru life, chasing my dream.
50 CENT IT departments have spent a lot of money on security. They've hardened the castle walls but left the...
ART GILLILAND "yes i own a whaler boat, it slides across the sea some folks say im a part of it i know its part of...
JIMMY BUFFETT They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?
JODI PICOULT Im Holding onto What i Hope Will Keep You by My side
DALLAS GREEN The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
ROBERT FROST I am not going to stop when i'm exhausted..I only stop when im done..things never done..that is mean...
EJUMP SCHIFFLER Im not trying to prove a point, ... I just want to get it out of my system, and I think I have the o...
ANGEL CORDERO, JR. Yes Im young,We Belong,Love Is Sung,By the peaceful Song...Listen Please, You'll fall to your knees,...
NOT YER TYPICAL DORK Im a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl
BJORK I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of class...
ANNE FADIMAN Publishing is tough. As a writer, if I'd murdered my family, that'd be a great gift, not to my famil...
DANIEL WALLACE The issue of IM is that it's being used on the public networks. IM is subject to all the same proble...
ANDREW LOCHART The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new...
NEIL GAIMAN Im not your biggest girly girl.
MAGGIE SIFF Think about visual IM (instant messaging).
RON GARRIQUES Im in the state of Imbroglio
NOBLE DA GENIUS the sentence im reading is terrific ...
J.D. SALINGER Im still betting on you. - Cinna.
SUZANNE COLLINS im still waiting for that kiss when my leg [(P o p s)]*
MEGAN I don't know but sometimes I feel that im not a good person in this planet However I like that feeli...
BENJABR, HASSAN Im finally glad to see this move forward,
JIM RICE I over analyze situations because Im scared of what may happen if I'm not prepared for it.
TURCOIS OMINEK I think Im going to run for President when I'm 35. Black, Women, and long locs...Lord help them. I w...
NERISSA IRVING Im like Captain America.... accept with a better body, smarter and 2 deployments...
NATHAN ELMO MELO I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's &...
AVI Im on a roller coaster that only goes up my friend.
JOHN GREEN A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD I've always been a reader and a writer.
LAINI TAYLOR I' ve been shot five times but im still breathing living proof there a god if you need a reason.
TUPAC SHAKUR Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. Bu...
C.S. LEWIS Im an animal love, but I don't have the smarts to be a vet, or the heart to have been a vet caus...
JULIE GOLD I need you here with me we look for our love but we dont find it im searching and searching, I reall...
SELENA GóMEZ I'm really excited because these are my first wins (at state). I kind of expected the 200 IM, but I ...
AMANDA FAULKNER I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you ...
GORDON ATKINSON Today my mouth is bigger than my heart. Sorry seems to be the hardest word. But, I'm sorry. I Love Y...
FEMALE IMAGINATION When you take your step your dream comes true,you see the sky with fluffy clouds you take your breat...
SELENA GóMEZ Whenever the press quits abusing me I know Im in the wrong pew. I dont mind it because when they thr...
HARRY S TRUMAN Sad and lonely cannot be the same, Not if im sad in you're little crowd.
LAWRENCE P. LE BLANC when im mad i usually punch a wall but that doesnt work so when your mad you dont need to punch a wa...
DALLY SALAD No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you...
CYNTHIA OZICK The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new...
NEIL GAIMAN Highways are like rivers, everytime im on a highway or a river, it makes my mind flow, nonstopping, ...
TERRY VISAKAY If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as ...
JULIAN BARNES It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself so...
JOHN GRISHAM Im not looking for perfection, just perfect flaws.
KIERRA C.T. BANKS For a memoir to really succeed, the author has to do such hard work before they come to the page. Th...
ALEXANDRA FULLER I like being full of mystery and wonder, people always know im up to something but never know exactl...
NIKKI ROWE

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JOHN BURROUGHS You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
JOHN BURROUGHS Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; ...
JOHN BURROUGHS All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better.
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JOHN BURROUGHS Leap, and the net will appear.
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JOHN BURROUGHS I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
JOHN BURROUGHS A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
JOHN BURROUGHS If you think you can do it, you can.
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JOHN BURROUGHS A plump, well-fed stream is as satisfying to behold as a well-fed animal or a thrifty tree. One sour...
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JOHN BURROUGHS I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word 'natural&#...
JOHN BURROUGHS For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self...
JOHN BURROUGHS Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupatio...
JOHN BURROUGHS One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.
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JOHN BURROUGHS In the fields and woods more than anything else all things come to those who wait, because all thing...
JOHN BURROUGHS Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and w...
JOHN BURROUGHS The secret of happiness is something to do.
JOHN BURROUGHS Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
JOHN BURROUGHS It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
JOHN BURROUGHS The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer th...
JOHN BURROUGHS I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, ...
JOHN BURROUGHS How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
JOHN BURROUGHS For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self...
JOHN BURROUGHS One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
JOHN BURROUGHS Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influen...
JOHN BURROUGHS Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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JOHN BURROUGHS The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of t...
JOHN BURROUGHS One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: "To rise above the little things."
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JOHN BURROUGHS A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
JOHN BURROUGHS It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
JOHN BURROUGHS Serene I told my hands and wait, Nor care for wind or tide nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst tim...
JOHN BURROUGHS Without death and decay, how could life go on?
JOHN BURROUGHS Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and...
JEREMIAH BURROUGHS The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I s...
JOHN BURROUGHS Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmun...
JOHN BURROUGHS I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live ...
JOHN BURROUGHS The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the ...
JOHN BURROUGHS He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration ...
JOHN BURROUGHS The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its...
JOHN BURROUGHS Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more fami...
JOHN BURROUGHS The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
JOHN BURROUGHS In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy da...
JOHN BURROUGHS To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed b...
JOHN BURROUGHS The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve ...
JOHN BURROUGHS A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
JOHN BURROUGHS I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The momen...
JOHN BURROUGHS It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the real...
JOHN BURROUGHS England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
JOHN BURROUGHS August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haz...
JOHN BURROUGHS One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challen...
JOHN BURROUGHS I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
JOHN BURROUGHS To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not de...
JOHN BURROUGHS It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the su...
JOHN BURROUGHS Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, i...
JOHN BURROUGHS The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then ...
JOHN BURROUGHS When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his ham...
JOHN BURROUGHS The type of mind of Whitman's, which seldom or never emerges as a mere mentality, an independent...
JOHN BURROUGHS For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self...
JOHN BURROUGHS The country is more of a wilderness, more of a wild solitude, in the winter than in the summer. The ...
JOHN BURROUGHS Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consci...
JOHN BURROUGHS The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being...
JOHN BURROUGHS One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, ...
JOHN BURROUGHS If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from...
JOHN BURROUGHS Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christia...
JEFF BURROUGHS Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing. The city, a place to which one goes to...
JOHN BURROUGHS The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larcen...
JOHN BURROUGHS The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
JOHN BURROUGHS Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice fro...
JOHN BURROUGHS Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times
JOHN BURROUGHS To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.
JOHN BURROUGHS Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thin...
JOHN BURROUGHS The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
JOHN BURROUGHS The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I...
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