"Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space."

Life, Space

2

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space."

Exlpore more Life quotes

"I don't want to finish reading the book."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Life, Book, Finish, Reading, Desire

"I love books."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Life, Books, Love, Reading, Pleasure

"I am bold as a lion."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Life, Bold, Lion, Strength, Courage

"I am very grateful for all the opportunities life has given me."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Life, Gratitude, Opportunities, Blessing

"Life is your greatest asset."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Life, Asset, Value, Greatest

"Even if you cover the whole world with darkness, you can never stop the sun from rising."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Life, Sun, Darkness, Rise

"My mission in life is to be kind, compassionate, caring, sharing and loving in order to feel the deepest joy of life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Life, Mission, Kindness, Compassion, Love

"Our life is a one way journey, we can never go back."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Life, Journey, Time, One-way

"The spirit of life, the spirit of peace."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Life, Inspirational, Happiness, Truth

"If have nothing but life, I have everything."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Life, Everything, Survival, Gratitude

Explore more quotes by Augusten Burroughs

"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."

Family, Mother, Father, Abuse, Hatred

"I never listen to music when I write."

Music,

"As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened."

Family, Childhood, Extreme

"I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it."

Advertising, Pretty, Years

"And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing."

Writing,

"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."

Life, Work, Being, Future

"Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting."

Marriage, People

"Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space."

Life, Space

"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 recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time."

Time, Day, Newspapers, Today

"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."

Books, Months