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title: "59 Burroughs Quotes by 43 authors"
description: "Browse 59 Burroughs quotes by 43 authors. Discover the best Burroughs sayings and thoughts."
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> [Burroughs is crap. Crap.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/burroughs-is-crap-crap/)

[Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/)

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> [“Burroughs ... his very junkhood an accomplishment beyond a million dollars.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-ginsberg/burroughs-his-very-junkhood-an-accomplishment-beyond-a-million-dollars/)

[Allen Ginsberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-ginsberg/)

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> [I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yannis-philippakis/i-like-simple-writing-i-d-rather-read-hemingway-than-burroughs/)

[Yannis Philippakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yannis-philippakis/)

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> [Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/burroughs-is-the-greatest-satirical-writer-since-jonathan-swift/)

[Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/)

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> [when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-burroughs/when-i-become-death-death-is-the-seed-from-which-i-grow/)

[William S. Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-s-burroughs/)

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> [Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/who-is-more-real-homer-or-ulysses-shakespeare-or-hamlet-burroughs-or/)

[Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/)

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> [ I was suckered in by the myth of the man \[ William Burroughs\] as much as by his work. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-harris/i-was-suckered-in-by-the-myth-of-the-man-william-burroughs-as-much-as/)

[Oliver Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-harris/)

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> [“The name's Clem Williamson Snide. I am a private asshole.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-burroughs/the-name-s-clem-williamson-snide-i-am-a-private-asshole/)

[William Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-burroughs/)

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> [Edgar Rice Burroughs taught me pace and gave me a sense of action and adventure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-r-lansdale/edgar-rice-burroughs-taught-me-pace-and-gave-me-a-sense-of-action-and/)

[Joe R. Lansdale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-r-lansdale/)

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> [Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/burroughs-s-voice-is-hard-derisive-inventive-free-funny-serious/)

[Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/)

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> [ \[Allen\] Ginsberg totally helped that out. He was the best sales person. He was the most pop. They are still shocking and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yony-leyser/allen-ginsberg-totally-helped-that-out-he-was-the-best-sales-person/)

[Yony Leyser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yony-leyser/)

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> [The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-corso/the-other-guy-i-dug-a-lot-was-burroughs-because-he-was-a-smart-man/)

[Gregory Corso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-corso/)

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> [I enjoyed The Mirage by M. Ruff. I'm reading Edgar Rice Burrough's Princess Of Mars right and loving it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-s-kemp/i-enjoyed-the-mirage-by-m-ruff-i-m-reading-edgar-rice-burrough-s/)

[Paul S. Kemp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-s-kemp/)

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> [Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-burroughs/like-many-nonconformist-and-beat-generation-writers-william-s/)

[William S. Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-s-burroughs/)

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> [With ‘Avatar,’ I thought, Forget all these chick flicks and do a classic guys’ adventure movie, something in the Edgar Rice Burroughs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-cameron/with-avatar-i-thought-forget-all-these-chick-flicks-and-do-a-classic/)

[James Cameron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-cameron/)

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> [After I got kicked out of CalArts, I moved to Lawrence Kansas where my sister lived. I began working on A William…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yony-leyser/after-i-got-kicked-out-of-calarts-i-moved-to-lawrence-kansas-where-my/)

[Yony Leyser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yony-leyser/)

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> [“some trillions of years ago a sloppy, dirty giant flicked grease from his fingers. One of those gobs of grease is our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brion-gysin/some-trillions-of-years-ago-a-sloppy-dirty-giant-flicked-grease-from/)

[Brion Gysin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brion-gysin/)

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> [Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . The net result of Naked Lunch will be to make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/burroughs-is-the-greatest-satirical-writer-since-jonathan-swift-the/)

[Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/)

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> [I wish I had more control, more like Edgar Rice Burroughs had, but I'm a realist, too. I work in television. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-roddenberry/i-wish-i-had-more-control-more-like-edgar-rice-burroughs-had-but-i-m/)

[Gene Roddenberry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-roddenberry/)

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> [John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/john-burroughs-has-stated-that-experimental-study-of-animals-in/)

[Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/)

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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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-s-crisp/william-burroughs-incidentally-took-up-the-slogan-that-we-are-here-to/)

[Quentin S. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-s-crisp/)

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> [Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-gibson/hollis-thought-he-looked-like-william-burroughs-minus-the-bohemian/)

[William Gibson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-gibson/)

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> [“Burroughs a purest ignu his haircut is a cream his left finger pinkey chopped off for early ignu reasons metaphysical spells love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-ginsberg/burroughs-a-purest-ignu-his-haircut-is-a-cream-his-left-finger-pinkey/)

[Allen Ginsberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-ginsberg/)

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> [As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-r-lansdale/as-for-the-writers-who-have-influenced-me-they-are-many-hemingway/)

[Joe R. Lansdale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-r-lansdale/)

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> [What we have here is a rousing boy's adventure story, adapted from stories that Edgar Rice Burroughs cranked out for early pulp…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-ebert/what-we-have-here-is-a-rousing-boy-s-adventure-story-adapted-from/)

[Roger Ebert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-ebert/)

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> [“I feel as though dispossessed from the semblances of some crystalline reality to which I’d grown accustomed, and to some degree, had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashim-shanker/i-feel-as-though-dispossessed-from-the-semblances-of-some-crystalline/)

[Ashim Shanker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashim-shanker/)

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> [For a while, the gay thing seemed like such a big deal. But now, I don't think it is. It's just a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gale-harold/for-a-while-the-gay-thing-seemed-like-such-a-big-deal-but-now-i-don-t/)

[Gale Harold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gale-harold/)

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> [Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/science-fiction-is-a-dialogue-a-tennis-match-in-which-the-idea-is/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [I was taken by William Burroughs’ presence and intelligence from the first time I was introduced to him, by Lester Bangs in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-simon/i-was-taken-by-william-burroughs-presence-and-intelligence-from-the/)

[Kate Simon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-simon/)

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> [“Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-burroughs/did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-man-who-taught-his-asshole-to-talk-his/)

[William S. Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-s-burroughs/)

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> [“The magnificent diamond locket which hung about Tarzan's neck, had been a source of much wonderment to Jane. She pointed to it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-rice-burroughs/the-magnificent-diamond-locket-which-hung-about-tarzan-s-neck-had/)

[Edgar Rice Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-rice-burroughs/)

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> [All I wanted and all Neal wanted and all anybody wanted was some kind of penetration into the heart of things where,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/all-i-wanted-and-all-neal-wanted-and-all-anybody-wanted-was-some-kind/)

[Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/)

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> [I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-harris/i-tell-this-anecdote-with-tongue-in-cheek-at-the-start-of-my-book/)

[Oliver Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-harris/)

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> [When I was a boy in the late 1950s, the public library refused to stock books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/when-i-was-a-boy-in-the-late-1950s-the-public-library-refused-to/)

[Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/)

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> [As I was in the air, the ball took a bad hop and caromed behind me, but I was able to catch…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ozzie-smith/as-i-was-in-the-air-the-ball-took-a-bad-hop-and-caromed-behind-me-but/)

[Ozzie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ozzie-smith/)

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> [When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patti-smith/when-i-was-young-i-knew-william-burroughs-really-well-and-william-s/)

[Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patti-smith/)

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> [Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brendan-fraser/burroughs-was-never-really-that-pleased-with-the-way-popular-culture/)

[Brendan Fraser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brendan-fraser/)

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> [Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-stinson/origami-striptease-reads-like-william-s-burroughs-and-djuna-barnes/)

[Susan Stinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-stinson/)

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> [There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs commercial is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-moody/there-is-no-right-or-wrong-reading-of-naked-lunch-though-some/)

[Rick Moody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-moody/)

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> [“I had read and admired Ballard and Burroughs, and I thought of them as very powerful effect pedals. You get to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-gibson/i-had-read-and-admired-ballard-and-burroughs-and-i-thought-of-them-as/)

[William Gibson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-gibson/)

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## Top authors on Burroughs

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-s-burroughs-95860.jpg) William S. Burroughs 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/burroughs/william-s-burroughs/)

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                        "text": "As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery O'Conner, Carson McCullers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and so many others. As a kid Kipling and Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Robert E. Howard.",
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                        "text": "What we have here is a rousing boy's adventure story, adapted from stories that Edgar Rice Burroughs cranked out for early pulp magazines. They lacked the visceral appeal of his Tarzan stories, which inspired an estimated 89 movies; amazingly, this is the first John Carter movie, but it is intended to foster a franchise and will probably succeed.",
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                        "text": "“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 as a participant, but to which I had, nevertheless, grown inexplicably irrelevant. But the elements of this phenomenon are now quickly dissolving from memory and being replaced by reverse-engineered Random Access actualizations of junk code/DNA consciousness, the retro-coded catalysts of rogue cellular activity. The steel meshing titters musically and in its song, I hear a forgotten tale of the Interstitial gaps that form pinpoint vortexes at which fibers (quanta, as it were) of Reason come to a standstill, like light on the edge of a Singularity. The gaps, along their ridges, seasonally infected by the incidental wildfires in the collective unconscious substrata. Heat flanks passageways down the Interstices. Wildfires cluster—spread down the base trunk Axon in a definitive roar: hitting branches, flaring out to Dendrites to give rise to this release of the very chemical seeds through which sentience is begotten. Float about the ether, gliding a gentle current, before skimming down, to a skip over the surface of a sea of deep black with glimmering waves. And then, come to a stop, still inanimate and naked before any trespass into the Field, with all its layers that serve to veil. Plunge downward into the trenches. Swim backwards, upstream, and down through these spiraling jets of bubbles. Plummet past the threshold to trace the living history of shadows back to their source virus. And acquire this sense that the viruses as a sample, all of the outlying populations withstanding: they have their own sense of self-importance, too. Their own religion. And they mine their hosts barren with the utilitarian wherewithal that can only be expected of beings with self-preservationist motives.”",
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                        "text": "For a while, the gay thing seemed like such a big deal. But now, I don't think it is. It's just a comedy-drama about people who live in the United States. It's a slice-of-life. I play a character-that's it. But I was well aware of the gay lifestyle before the show. I've been hit on in a really strong way by gay men who've tried to convert me, and a lot of my heroes are gay. William Burroughs, Lou Reed. Well, I guess Lou Reed is bi. The point is, it's 2002, gay life is no longer that shocking.",
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                        "text": "Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone 'stole' an idea: no, no, a thousand times no. The point is the volley, and how it's carried, and what statement is made by the answering 'statement.' In other words — if Burroughs initiates a time-gate and says it works randomly, and then Norton has time gates confounded with the Perilous Seat, the Siege Perilous of the Round Table, and locates it in a bar on a rainy night — do you see both the humor and the volley in the tennis match?",
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                        "text": "I was taken by William Burroughs’ presence and intelligence from the first time I was introduced to him, by Lester Bangs in 1975. He was thrilling to listen to. When you heard him speak, you felt that you were privy to such a rare mind. Even in small-talk, he spoke with perfect economy of language. His shoots with me were very collaborative and it was an incredible opportunity to be able to photograph him over the course of twenty years.",
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                        "text": "“Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down, you dig, farting out the words. It was unlike anything I ever heard. Bubbly, thick, stagnant sound. A sound you could smell. This man worked for the carnival,you dig? And to start with it was like a novelty ventriloquist act. After a while, the ass started talking on its own. He would go in without anything prepared... and his ass would ad-lib and toss the gags back at him every time. Then it developed sort of teethlike... little raspy incurving hooks and started eating. He thought this was cute at first and built an act around it... but the asshole would eat its way through his pants and start talking on the street... shouting out it wanted equal rights. It would get drunk, too, and have crying jags. Nobody loved it. And it wanted to be kissed, same as any other mouth. Finally, it talked all the time, day and night. You could hear him for blocks, screaming at it to shut up... beating at it with his fists... and sticking candles up it, but... nothing did any good, and the asshole said to him... \"It is you who will shut up in the end, not me... \"because we don't need you around here anymore. I can talk and eat and shit.\" After that, he began waking up in the morning with transparentjelly... like a tadpole's tail all over his mouth. He would tear it off his mouth and the pieces would stick to his hands... like burning gasoline jelly and grow there. So, finally, his mouth sealed over... and the whole head... would have amputated spontaneously except for the eyes, you dig? That's the one thing that the asshole couldn't do was see. It needed the eyes. Nerve connections were blocked... and infiltrated and atrophied. So, the brain couldn't give orders anymore. It was trapped inside the skull... sealed off. For a while, you could see... the silent, helpless suffering of the brain behind the eyes. And then finally the brain must have died... because the eyes went out... and there was no more feeling in them than a crab's eye at the end of a stalk.”",
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                        "text": "“The magnificent diamond locket which hung about Tarzan's neck, had been a source of much wonderment to Jane. She pointed to it now, and Tarzan removed it and handed the pretty bauble to her. She saw that it was the work of a skilled artisan and that the diamonds were of great brilliancy and superbly set, but the cutting of them denoted that they were of a former day. She noticed too that the locket opened, and, pressing the hidden clasp, she saw the two halves spring apart to reveal in either section an ivory miniature.”",
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                        "text": "All I wanted and all Neal wanted and all anybody wanted was some kind of penetration into the heart of things where, like in a womb, we could curl up and sleep the ecstatic sleep that Burroughs was experiencing with a good big mainline shot of M. and advertising executives in NY were experiencing with twelve Scotch & Sodas in Stouffers before they made the drunkard's train to Westchester---but without hangovers.",
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