Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan? — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Edgar Rice Burroughs taught me pace and gave me a sense of action and adventure. — Joe R. Lansdale 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
I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs. — Yannis Philippakis Copy Share Image
“Burroughs ... his very junkhood an accomplishment beyond a million dollars.” — Allen Ginsberg 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
I go back to read 'Tarzan' books every now and again or 'John Carter,' and you realize Edgar Rice Burroughs is not… — Shane Black 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
“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
“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Burroughs called his greatest novel Naked Lunch, by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. He's… — J. G. Ballard 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
All of William S. Burroughs friends pushed it forward and introduced me to one another. I was able to enter into that… — Yony Leyser 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
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
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
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
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
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