Augusten Burroughs Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Book, Writing, Years

• I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Thinking, Want

• But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Sitting, Lines

• (The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I’m writing about is me. It seems wiser to let him think I’m an aspiring novelist instead of just an alcoholic with a year of sobriety who spends eight hours a day writing about the other 16.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Thinking, Eight

• I understood at once, I am not living, but actively dying. I am smoking, living unhealthily. I’m shutting down. I need to go the other way, inside. And it was so clear to me what I was doing. It was suddenly perfectly clear. I understood, I need to write. Live here, in my words, and my head. I need to go inside, that’s all. No big, complicated, difficult thing. I just need to go in reverse. And not worry about what to write about, but just write. Or, if I’m going to worry about what to write, then do this worrying on paper, so at least I’m writing and will have a record of the anxiety.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Worry, Smoking

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Possible Side Effects”, p.120, Atlantic Books Ltd

• I never listen to music when I write.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Listening To Music

• There is nothing about myself that I wouldn't reveal or write about. I don't care how horrendous or ridiculous I may appear in person or in print. There is great freedom in not caring what other people think.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Caring, Thinking

  Interview, www.goodreads.com. April, 2008.

• 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

• The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Thinking, Secret

• I could write another collection of personal essays from what has happened to me in the last year alone. I don't seek out my material - it finds me. I am magnetic, somehow.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Years, Lasts

  Interview, www.goodreads.com. April, 2008.

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

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Doe, Subconscious

  Source: content.time.com

• As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Giving Up, Writing, Luxury

• I feel like they are two different things, and when I write books, they're just books. If they can be movies that's okay. But I would write a novel that couldn't be a film.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Book, Writing, Two

  "INTERVIEW: Augusten Burroughs, Author of ‘Running With Scissors’". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.ropeofsilicon.com. October 27, 2006.

• I don't have a fixed routine. I write every day but I don't "write" every day, if that makes any sense. In other words, I email with my friends constantly and sometimes I'll pull out something I've written and save it.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Email, Routine

  Interview, www.goodreads.com. April, 2008.

• 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 only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Down And, Ritual

• I'll always write about what's going on in my life and the reason for that is it's not actually because I'm so fascinated with myself, it's because I can't think. I can't think like have thoughts in my head and think them through and come to a conclusion. It's like math for me.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Math, Thinking

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 3, 2009.

• I don't sit down at nine in the morning and begin writing and then take a break for lunch and stop at four. I have no structure like that. I am at my computer constantly, more or less attached to it. I live on-line and hate being off-line and don't care how unhealthy it is.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Morning, Hate, Writing

  Source: www.goodreads.com

• 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

• There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting to people, whether it's memoir or fiction, is the truth.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, People, Interesting

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 3, 2009.

• What I think of blogs is just this: Some are beautifully written and many are not. But even blogs that aren't necessarily "well" written are great for the person writing them.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Thinking, Wells

  Source: www.goodreads.com

• Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Happens, Decided

• The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with your fingers or you type on your laptop, but you need to have a limber mind and you need to be able to write without judging what you've written, at least right away, and without editing right away.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Editing, Judging

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Way

  Source: blogcritics.org

• And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Npr

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