Augusten Burroughs Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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

  Book, Writing, Years

• But then, look at me. My brain is incorrectly formed, and I'm shaped like a tube. Plus, I'm an alcoholic, a "survivor" of childhood sexual abuse, was raised in a cult and have no education. 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.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Book, Thinking, Feet

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “Magical Thinking”, p.211, Atlantic Books Ltd

• A lot of being a writer doesn't have anything to do with writing. It's ironic - I have to squeeze the books in, even though that's what it's all about.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Book, Writing, Ironic

  Source: www.bookslut.com

• It's weird - sort of not terribly wise - to take a book that was successful and then change its cover.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Wise, Book, Successful

  Source: www.bookslut.com

• I love to both give and receive very old books.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Book, Giving, Giving And Receiving

• I feel like they are two different things, and when I write books, they're just books. If they can be movies that's okay. But I would write a novel that couldn't be a film.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Book, Writing, Two

  "INTERVIEW: Augusten Burroughs, Author of ‘Running With Scissors’". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.ropeofsilicon.com. October 27, 2006.

• 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.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Book, Writing, Long

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 3, 2009.

• I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read would probably put you directly into a coma.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Book, Ideas, Physics

  Source: www.goodreads.com

• When I first thought of being a writer I had visions of stacks of books in stores with my name on them, that sort of thing. But I never imagined this would be the reaction.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Book, Names, Vision

  Source: blogcritics.org

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