I enjoyed The Mirage by M. Ruff. I'm reading Edgar Rice…

'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations…

— Junot Diaz

As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium…

— William S. Burroughs

People talk about this often in the art world. The press releases have reached a level of absurdity and creativity - creative absurdity -…

— David Salle

“I feel as though dispossessed from the semblances of some crystalline reality to which I’d grown accustomed, and to some degree, had engaged in…

— Ashim Shanker

Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous…

— Anonymous

“What's with the serum?" I don't know, but it sounds ominous. We better put a telepathic direction finder on Benway. The man's not to…

— William S. Burroughs

Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old…

— Angela Carter

I really think [William] Burroughs was onto something here, when he said, "Dreams are a biologic necessity and your lifeline into space."

— Quentin S. Crisp

In 1911, Edgar Rice Burroughs, having failed at everything else, decided to write a novel. He was then in his mid-thirties, married with two…

— Michael Dirda

Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.

— Joan Didion

Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . The net result of Naked Lunch will be to make people shudder…

— Jack Kerouac

“Burroughs ... his very junkhood an accomplishment beyond a million dollars.”

— Allen Ginsberg

[william] Burroughs, incidentally, took up the slogan that we are "Here to go", which contradicts the tendency in Eastern mysticism to advocate staying where…

— Quentin S. Crisp

“Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down, you dig,…

— William S. Burroughs

Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the…

— William Gibson