Latest Augusten Burroughs Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Effort, Alive

  Source: content.time.com

• No matter what I've written, someone somewhere has come up to me and said, "Me too." The truth can be offensive, but it's always nourishing, in a way. You recognize it. You can feel it. And even if [readers] think, "My god, I would never get in those situations," within those ridiculous circumstances that I have created for myself, they know the way I respond is probably what they would do too.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Thinking, Matter, Way

  Source: content.time.com

• 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.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Taken, Writing, Thinking

  Source: content.time.com

• My subconscious does the writing; I don't have control over that.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Doe, Subconscious

  Source: content.time.com

• [Christmas] 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 because that's when you're thinking about family. Are we close? Or are we not as close as other people?

  Augusten Burroughs

  Holiday, Thinking, Light

  Source: content.time.com

• I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]

  Augusten Burroughs

  Greek, Littles, Chickens

  Source: www.bookslut.com

• It's weird - sort of not terribly wise - to take a book that was successful and then change its cover.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Wise, Book, Successful

  Source: www.bookslut.com

• With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it. Everything I write is the truth and I know that I would win.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Winning, Tvs

  Source: www.bookslut.com

• A lot of being a writer doesn't have anything to do with writing. It's ironic - I have to squeeze the books in, even though that's what it's all about.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Book, Writing, Ironic

  Source: www.bookslut.com

• I thought, I can't do advertising any more, so I was downloading all these PDF applications from community colleges. And I thought, I'll become a paramedic. I'll get a two-year associate degree, if I can get in.

  Augusten Burroughs

  College, Years, Two

  Source: www.bookslut.com

• There's a lot about being "A Writer" that has nothing to do with writing. That's one thing I've discovered. You've got to meet with the sales force, and you've got to have all these luncheons, and be gracious, and you've got to give a lot of presentations and you've got to give a lot of speeches, and you've got to be on tour.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Giving, Speech

  Source: www.bookslut.com

• New York City is a place where you can lock yourself up in your little studio apartment, and not go outside at all, and not feel in the slightest guilty about it.

  Augusten Burroughs

  New York, Cities, Locks

  Source: www.bookslut.com

• I'm grateful for a lot of things. One is not being a drunk wreck. Or losing all four limbs in some ridiculous East Village bus accident that I was so destined for.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Grateful, Drunk, East

  Source: www.bookslut.com

• I think people might think, oh, I don't want to approach the big famous author because it's embarrassing, but then they think for two seconds about it and realize, this is, like, a toilet bowl reader.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Thinking, Two, People

  Source: www.bookslut.com

• I'm always prepared for the worst.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Worst, Prepared

  Source: www.bookslut.com

• I've learned how to turn the adversities in my life into enriching experiences. You can actually gain a lot from adversities and they make you the person you are today.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Adversity, Today, Gains

  Source: blogcritics.org

• You can make almost anything a learning or positive experience. I think I offer a good example of how to make the most out of what life gives you and how to keep moving on.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Moving, Thinking, Giving

  Source: blogcritics.org

• I'm not going to waste my energy looking into the eyes of someone like the guy who blew my legs off trying to find a way to forgive him for doing something that horrible when there are way more productive ways I could be spending my life. You've got to focus on moving on.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Moving, Eye, Focus

  Source: blogcritics.org

• I've overcome a lot - sexual abuse, death of a loved one, bad parents and experienced life. My nature is such I not only survived all this but I have thrived. I've always been psychologically ambitious in that I've never been willing to settle emotionally for anything less then what's needed. I've wanted more then that from life.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Death Of A Loved One, Parent, Abuse

  Source: blogcritics.org

• I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Cells, Forgiving, Brain

  Source: blogcritics.org

• If I were blind I'd rather have another blind person leading me around because they know what I'm dealing with and they're experiencing the same things.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Blind, Leading Me, Persons

  Source: blogcritics.org

• When I first thought of being a writer I had visions of stacks of books in stores with my name on them, that sort of thing. But I never imagined this would be the reaction.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Book, Names, Vision

  Source: blogcritics.org

• Writing has enriched my life in ways I never imaged.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Way

  Source: blogcritics.org

• I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read would probably put you directly into a coma.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Book, Ideas, Physics

  Source: www.goodreads.com

• The dark side of blogging is, of course, people can be (and are) just savage and uncivilized, deeply cruel and fully unaccountable.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Dark, People, Savages

  Source: www.goodreads.com