Logo
Quote by Augusten Burroughs
When people meet me, many times theyre very surprised because they

When people meet me, many times theyre very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and Im not. – Augusten Burroughs

Other quotes by Augusten Burroughs

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didnt have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams. – Augusten Burroughs

Category:
Dreams
Author
Augusten Burroughs
Read Quote

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. – Augusten Burroughs

Category:
relationship
Author
Augusten Burroughs
Read Quote

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. Its 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. – Augusten Burroughs

Category:
alone
Author
Augusten Burroughs
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
cool
category

Its cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what Ive been going through in one way or another. – Chester Bennington

Category:
cool

51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. Im afraid I could never be that cool in real life! – Emily Mortimer

Category:
cool

Its cool when fans spend so much time making things for me. It means a lot. – Justin Bieber

Category:
cool

Everybody thinks its going to be so glamorous, so cool, youre on Glee, you know, a hit show or whatever. – Idina Menzel

Category:
cool

Random Quotes

Grammarians squabble, and will squabble long. – Horace (65–8B.C.), De Arte Poetica, translated by George Colman, 1783

Category:
Grammar

Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth – Paul Gauguin

Category:
Artist, The

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. – Kahlil Gibran

Category:
Pain

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. – C.S. Lewis

Category:
Courage