Augusten Burroughs Quotes

There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.

If you're going to write about your life, you must write about your life.

I don't write autobiographically.

I can't see an autobiography in my future. But who knows what might happen.

When you write an autobiography, it has to be authentic.

I had many doubts while writing my autobiography. I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested to read about my life.

An autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth, the remorseless truth is there, between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell... the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences.

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down.

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

A film of my life would never happen!

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

Yes, I have two books that are about me: one of them I wrote, and the other one was written about me. One of my books, which is called 'Spying on Miss Muller,' is really about me even though it's a novel. My autobiography is called 'Once Upon a Time.'

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography.

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

I write about true-life type things.

Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange, but I also feel it's my life and my story, and I guess I better be the one to get it on paper the way it actually happened.

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Not to be too 'Tale of Two Cities' about it, but I find writing a memoir easier than writing fiction, and more difficult.