Quotes by Writing (The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I’m writing about is me. It seems wiser to let him think I’m an aspiring novelist instead of just an alcoholic with a year of sobriety who spends eight hours a day writing about the other 16. Augusten Burroughs eightwritingthinking I never listen to music when I write. Augusten Burroughs listening-to-musicwriting I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in. Augusten Burroughs wantwritingthinking 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. Augusten Burroughs secretwritingthinking And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing. Augusten Burroughs nprwriting I don't sit down at nine in the morning and begin writing and then take a break for lunch and stop at four. I have no structure like that. I am at my computer constantly, more or less attached to it. I live on-line and hate being off-line and don't care how unhealthy it is. Augusten Burroughs hatewritingmorning What I think of blogs is just this: Some are beautifully written and many are not. But even blogs that aren't necessarily "well" written are great for the person writing them. Augusten Burroughs wellswritingthinking 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 writingtwobook 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 ironicwritingbook There's a lot about being "A Writer" that has nothing to do with writing. That's one thing I've discovered. You've got to meet with the sales force, and you've got to have all these luncheons, and be gracious, and you've got to give a lot of presentations and you've got to give a lot of speeches, and you've got to be on tour. Augusten Burroughs speechwritinggiving I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers. Augusten Burroughs takenwritingthinking 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. Augusten Burroughs tvswinningwriting Writing has enriched my life in ways I never imaged. Augusten Burroughs writingway 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 writinglongbook The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with your fingers or you type on your laptop, but you need to have a limber mind and you need to be able to write without judging what you've written, at least right away, and without editing right away. Augusten Burroughs judgingeditingwriting There is nothing about myself that I wouldn't reveal or write about. I don't care how horrendous or ridiculous I may appear in person or in print. There is great freedom in not caring what other people think. Augusten Burroughs caringwritingthinking I could write another collection of personal essays from what has happened to me in the last year alone. I don't seek out my material - it finds me. I am magnetic, somehow. Augusten Burroughs lastswritingyears My subconscious does the writing; I don't have control over that. Augusten Burroughs subconsciousdoewriting I don't have a fixed routine. I write every day but I don't "write" every day, if that makes any sense. In other words, I email with my friends constantly and sometimes I'll pull out something I've written and save it. Augusten Burroughs emailroutinewriting To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real. Augusto Roa Bastos realwritingmean«116117118119120121122123124125126»
