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
swings laughing made
His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade
believe love-is valuable
Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.
years people honest
People generally like happy endings, which is something I learned from my years in advertising. I like happy endings myself, but only if they're honest. I'm just as happy with a terrible, hopeless ending.
writing doe subconscious
My subconscious does the writing; I don't have control over that.
moving past rivers
Time moves only forward, never back. We look forward to a moment and then it arrives and an instant later it is gone. Like something on the surface of a river that we reached for but did not touch in time and it carried on, away. You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.
path moments found
The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths.
long hatred ruins
Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.
greek littles chickens
I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]
what-if body stills
It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then?
writing math thinking
I'll always write about what's going on in my life and the reason for that is it's not actually because I'm so fascinated with myself, it's because I can't think. I can't think like have thoughts in my head and think them through and come to a conclusion. It's like math for me.
i-love-him thinking people
I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people who aren't good for you.
writing winning tvs
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. Everything I write is the truth and I know that I would win.
mind
You manufacture beauty with your mind
nice apology lovely
The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear.