All Augusten Burroughs Quotes
- I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about… Collection
- Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's… Actual
- But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago. Band
- Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen. Decided
- Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true. Definitely
- And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing. Inspirational
- 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… Book
- I love to both give and receive very old books. Book
- I never listen to music when I write. Inspirational
- I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in. Experience
- I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it. Advertising
- My brother was born without taste or the desire to be professionally lit. Born
- I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. Beautiful
- Sometimes when you work in advertising you'll get a product that's really garbage and you have to make it seem fantastic, something that is essential… Advertising
- Tracy, the leader of the CDH group, looks at me with eyes that seem to belong to someone three times her age. It's something beyond… Age
- My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich,… Began
- We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover. Bored
- and she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart. Hard
- In the opening to the Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary's in the supermarket, hurrying through the aisles. She pauses at the meat case, picks up… Aisles
- He's a really nice guy, if only I weren't me. Guy
- Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people. Cubic
- You have an incredible body." He reaches out to touch my stomach. I feel no pleasure in his compliment or his touch, only impatience. This… Body
- I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life.… Any
- Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here,… Arms
- I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a… Car