Augusten Burroughs Quotes - Page 10

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Doe, Subconscious

  Source: content.time.com

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

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  Writing, Way

  Source: blogcritics.org

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• 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.

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  Taken, Writing, Thinking

  Source: content.time.com

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Writing, Winning, Tvs

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  Morning, Hate, Writing

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• 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.

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  Blind, Leading Me, Persons

  Source: blogcritics.org

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• 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.

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  Moving, Eye, Focus

  Source: blogcritics.org

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• 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.

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  Death Of A Loved One, Parent, Abuse

  Source: blogcritics.org

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• 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.

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  Adversity, Today, Gains

  Source: blogcritics.org

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• 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.

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  Book, Names, Vision

  Source: blogcritics.org

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• I'm always prepared for the worst.

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  Worst, Prepared

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Two, People

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• 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.

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  New York, Cities, Locks

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• 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.

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  Writing, Giving, Speech

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• 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.

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  Book, Writing, Ironic

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• 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

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• I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Software, Screenplays, Has Beens

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, zulkey.com. May 28, 2004.

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