“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
Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan? — Robert A. Heinlein 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
Edgar Rice Burroughs taught me pace and gave me a sense of action and adventure. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American. — Joan Didion 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
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
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
Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
With ‘Avatar,’ I thought, Forget all these chick flicks and do a classic guys’ adventure movie, something in the Edgar Rice Burroughs… — James Cameron 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
“some trillions of years ago a sloppy, dirty giant flicked grease from his fingers. One of those gobs of grease is our… — Brion Gysin 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
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
John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a… — Emma Goldman 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
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
“Burroughs a purest ignu his haircut is a cream his left finger pinkey chopped off for early ignu reasons metaphysical spells love… — Allen Ginsberg 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
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 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
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 was taken by William Burroughs’ presence and intelligence from the first time I was introduced to him, by Lester Bangs in… — Kate Simon 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
I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
When I was a boy in the late 1950s, the public library refused to stock books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They were… — Michael Dirda 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
When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write… — Patti Smith 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
Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon. — Susan Stinson 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 had read and admired Ballard and Burroughs, and I thought of them as very powerful effect pedals. You get to a… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
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