Augusten Burroughs
Augusten Burroughs
Augusten Xon Burroughsis an American writer known for his New York Times bestselling memoir Running with Scissors...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth23 October 1965
CountryUnited States of America
blow air doors
The truth is humbling, terrifying, and often exhilarating. It blows the doors off the hinges and fills the world with fresh air.
thinking people desire
When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me." That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world.
writing thinking secret
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.
smile want uniforms
He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa.
baby nice friendly
I just look at her and she creeps me out. She looks like she would eat a baby. Not that she's fat. She just looks hungry in some dangerous way that can't be explained. She's always so nice and friendly. Exactly the disposition of a baby killer.
sea water monkeys
I was like a packet of powdered Sea Monkeys and they were like water.
past mind your-past
You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.
school rehab facts
The most mortifying fact of my life is something that happened when I was fourteen and I have never admitted to anyone: not to friends nor therapists; not even in rehab when we were detailing our own personal spirals of shame did I confess. It is this: I am a graduate of the Barbizon School of Modeling.
curiosity misery fast-food
Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.
salad bars phobia
It was a salad bar of phobias
spiritual doors pudding
No matter your spiritual beliefs, if you hold any, the answer is the same: sometimes, why is not knowable. If you open the refrigerator door and a tub of Kozy Shack tapioca pudding tumbles out and splats open onto the floor, you clean it. You don’t stand there and question why it happened, how it was possible. Why doesn’t matter now.
weight-loss willpower ready
If you find you require willpower, you aren't ready to lose weight.
hate sobriety feelings
I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?
stars quality genius
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. Star quality.