“Burroughs ... his very junkhood an accomplishment beyond a million dollars.” — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs. — Yannis Philippakis Copy Share Image
I met William Burroughs in 1971. I got his address through a magazine and went to London to spend time with him. — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
Authors and artists are still afraid of breaking away as far as [William Burroughs] did... And he did it in the 50s! — Yony Leyser Copy Share Image
American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame… — Jeff Olson Copy Share Image
There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs commercial is not… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
As I was in the air, the ball took a bad hop and caromed behind me, but I was able to catch… — Ozzie Smith Copy Share Image
After I got kicked out of CalArts, I moved to Lawrence Kansas where my sister lived. I began working on A William… — Yony Leyser Copy Share Image
People talk about this often in the art world. The press releases have reached a level of absurdity and creativity - creative… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“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… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Hip - Someone who knows the score. Someone who understands "jive talk." Someone who is "with it." The expression is not subject… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
In 1911, Edgar Rice Burroughs, having failed at everything else, decided to write a novel. He was then in his mid-thirties, married… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“During this period of his life, Burroughs was seeking a physical utopia, a place where he could live and act as he… — Greg A. Mullins Copy Share Image
Bizarrely funny... Rarely is a documentary as well attuned to its subject as Howard Brookner's BURROUGHS, which captures as much about the… — Janet Maslin Copy Share Image
“Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“The magnificent diamond locket which hung about Tarzan's neck, had been a source of much wonderment to Jane. She pointed to it… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
All I wanted and all Neal wanted and all anybody wanted was some kind of penetration into the heart of things where,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I feel as though dispossessed from the semblances of some crystalline reality to which I’d grown accustomed, and to some degree, had… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
For a while, the gay thing seemed like such a big deal. But now, I don't think it is. It's just a… — Gale Harold Copy Share Image
Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few… — Brendan Fraser Copy Share Image
I enjoyed The Mirage by M. Ruff. I'm reading Edgar Rice Burrough's Princess Of Mars right and loving it. — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
[Allen] Ginsberg totally helped that out. He was the best sales person. He was the most pop. They are still shocking and… — Yony Leyser Copy Share Image
Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie… — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
What we have here is a rousing boy's adventure story, adapted from stories that Edgar Rice Burroughs cranked out for early pulp… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I wish I had more control, more like Edgar Rice Burroughs had, but I'm a realist, too. I work in television. I… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . The net result of Naked Lunch will be to make… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
[william] Burroughs, incidentally, took up the slogan that we are "Here to go", which contradicts the tendency in Eastern mysticism to advocate… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work. — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
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![“[william] Burroughs, incidentally, took up the slogan that we are "Here to go", which contradicts the tendency in Eastern mysticism to advocate staying where you are because there's nowhere to go anyway. I feel conflicted on this one.” quote by Quentin S. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aa0/quentin-s-crisp-4149_burroughs_william-burroughs-incidentally-took-up-t_122911.jpg)
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