Augusten Xon Burroughs (born October 23, 1965 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American writer known for his New York Times bestselling memoir Running with Scissors (2002). Read full biography of Augusten Burroughs →
As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You... →
I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.
I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you... →
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... →
When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and... →
I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get... →
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... →
I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.
As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not... →
Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.
I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt... →
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... →
I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.
Augusten Xon Burroughs (born October 23, 1965 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American writer known for his New York Times bestselling memoir Running with Scissors (2002).