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
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.
band chicago my-favorite
But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.
mind neighborhood unsafe
your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.
book deal foot guy separates teeth
So, really, if you think about it, the only thing that separates me from the guy with the stinky foot and no teeth is a book deal and some cologne.
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I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience.
inspirational life beautiful
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
stars two people
Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones.
happiness giving-up would-be
You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.
writing interesting people
There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting to people, whether it's memoir or fiction, is the truth.
losing-someone someone-you-love should
This is what you should know about losing someone you love. They do not travel alone. You go with them.
ambition matter bears
This is how you survive the unsurvivable, this is how you lose that which you cannot bear to lose, this is how you reinvent yourself, overcome your abusers, fulfill your ambitions and meet the love of your life: by following what is true, no matter where it leads you.
cells brain forgiving
I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.
book writing long
The most important thing for a writer to do is to write. It really doesn't matter what you write as long as you are able to write fluidly, very quickly, very effortlessly. It needs to become not second nature but really first nature to you. And read; you need to read and you need to read excellent books and then some bad books. Not as many bad books, but some bad books, so that you can see what both look like and why both are what they are.