Quotes by Augusten Burroughs

Augusten Burroughs

American writer

Lived from: 1965 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

Born: 23 october 1965

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  • Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.
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  • My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.
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  • My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.
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  • Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.
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  • Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.
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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.
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  • There's never a false note in a Berg novel.
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  • When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.
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  • 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.
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