I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I mean, handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.” — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Truth is not an opinion. It’s a force like gravity. It’s the most valuable substance known to man.” — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“If i wasn't an accident mustn't I be a crushing disappointment?” — Augusten Burroughs Accident Copy Share Image
“We tried to everything right, now we were forced to do everything wrong and it was working.” — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Everybody in recovery smokes. If you don't like smoking, don't even bother trying to get sober. Just stay drunk. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I discovered the bleeding when he licked my hand and left a swath of blood behind, death's autograph.” — Augusten Burroughs Death Copy Share Image
“[My brother] shaped my young life. First, he taught me how to walk. Then, armed with sticks and dead snakes, he chased… — Augusten Burroughs Brother Copy Share Image
“It's not that I was an outright nitwit of a child. It's that the things even a nitwit could do with little… — Augusten Burroughs Children Copy Share Image
I feel like they are two different things, and when I write books, they're just books. If they can be movies that's… — Augusten Burroughs Book Copy Share Image
I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read… — Augusten Burroughs Book Copy Share Image
The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I don't have a fixed routine. I write every day but I don't "write" every day, if that makes any sense. In… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Happiness is a treadmill of a goal for people who are not happy by nature. Being an unhappy person does not mean… — Augusten Burroughs Goals Copy Share Image
I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“eath, when it finally arrives, does so in a surprising fashion: it adds nothing to the room, not a light or a… — Augusten Burroughs Death Copy Share Image
“Sober. So that’s what I’m here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven’t felt… — Augusten Burroughs Children Copy Share Image
I just look at her and she creeps me out. She looks like she would eat a baby. Not that she's fat.… — Augusten Burroughs Baby Copy Share Image
“Well, somehow I felt if I sent Sally a donation, she would open the envelope herself and squeeze the cash into the… — Augusten Burroughs Donation Copy Share Image
It’s a wonder I’m even alive. Sometimes I think that. I think that I can’t believe I haven’t killed myself. But there’s… — Augusten Burroughs Alive Copy Share Image
Fact: upon locking yourself our of your apartment you will immediately need to use the bathroom. Fact: and then you will stand… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
What I really want is to sit next to someone under an L.L. bean blanket on the beach in the fall and… — Augusten Burroughs Beach Copy Share Image
“At that moment it would have been easier for me to spontaneously grasp quantum string theory” — Augusten Burroughs Physics Copy Share Image
“How could something have no end, and if it had no end exactly where did it leave us?” — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back. — Augusten Burroughs Brain Copy Share Image
“Truth is accuracy. Without accuracy, you can't expect to manifest large, specific changes in your life.” — Augusten Burroughs Accuracy Copy Share Image
My brother was born without taste or the desire to be professionally lit. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
When I ate vanilla frosting straight from the can, I could feel God standing right nest to me like a real best… — Augusten Burroughs Best friend Copy Share Image
My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study… — Augusten Burroughs Books Copy Share Image
To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether… — Augusten Burroughs Animal Copy Share Image
I suppose home is, for me, more of a state of mind. It's really more of about being where I want to… — Augusten Burroughs Care Copy Share Image
“...Truthfulness itself is almost medicinal, even when it's served without advice or insight. Just hearing true words spoken out loud provides relief.” — Augusten Burroughs Honesty Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting… — Augusten Burroughs Books Copy Share Image
Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Well, you know, just some old man all alone. God, I hope I don't end up alone like that. Some pathetic old… — Augusten Burroughs Old man Copy Share Image
“You must hang onto the scraps of the bucking moment as if your sanity and life depended on it - because actually… — Augusten Burroughs Life Copy Share Image
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