Augusten Burroughs | On Being a Writer

"I can't be a writer" I said "I don't even write. All I do is scribble stuff in notebooks. I don't even know what a verb is or how to type. And you have to read, like, Hemingway to be a writer"

"You don't have to read Hemingway, he's just some fat old drunk man," she said "You just have to take notes like you do already."

"Well, I don't know. I"ll probably end up as a prostitute"
Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors.