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Augusten Burroughs Quotes

Augusten Burroughs quotes about writing

American Writer October 23, 1965

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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
Dorothy viewed my mother's propensity toward madness not as something to be afraid of, but rather as something to look forward to, like a movie or a newly released color of nail polish.'Your mother is just expressing herself,' Dorothy would tell me when my mother stopped sleeping, started smoking the filters of her cigarettes and began writing backward with a glitter pen. No, she's not,' I would say. 'She's going insane again.' Don't be so mundane,' she would yawn, passing my mother a shoebox... Augusten Burroughs
It was not uncommon to walk in the door of their home and find my mother sitting on the sofa reading over a manuscript with shampoo horns sculpted into her hair. Anne Sexton's voice would be blasting from the speakers. A woman who writes feels too much... Augusten Burroughs
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
(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
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... Augusten Burroughs
Augusten Burroughs quote: "I never listen to music when I write."
I never listen to music when I write. Augusten Burroughs
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. Augusten Burroughs
Augusten Burroughs quote: "But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in..."
But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair. Augusten Burroughs
Augusten Burroughs quote: "My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day."
My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day. Augusten Burroughs
Augusten Burroughs quote: "And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing."
And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing. Augusten Burroughs
Augusten Burroughs quote: "Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen."
Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen. Augusten Burroughs

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