I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing...… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
[Jack] Kerouac was writing fiction. What he did when he wrote about me...he made me out with Russian Countesses and Swiss accounts… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The consciousness-expanding drugs - the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin - I think are useful to a writer up to… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so… — William S. Burroughs 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
My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else? — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I think if a writer is not endeavoring to expand and alter consciousness in himself and in his readers, he is not… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Control never be a means to any practical end. It can never be a means to anything but more control… Like punk.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Well as, one judge said to the other, 'Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary.' Regret cannot observe customary obscenities.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.' — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not .… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no solution. Just conflict. Only thing… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“For John Dillinger In hope he is still alive Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1986 In hope he is still alive Thanks for the wild… — William S. Burroughs 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, you dig,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
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