Burroughs Quotes

26 quotes by 23 authors

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. — William S. Burroughs
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… — Gale Harold
There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs commercial is not the issue. — Rick Moody
With â€˜Avatar,â€™ I thought, Forget all these chick flicks and do a classic guysâ€™ adventure movie, something in the Edgar Rice Burroughs mold, like John… — James Cameron
Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an ounce of talent. — Truman Capote
Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme. — William S. Burroughs
John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when… — Emma Goldman
As I was in the air, the ball took a bad hop and caromed behind me, but I was able to catch it with my… — Ozzie Smith
Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon. — Susan Stinson
I was taken by William Burroughsâ€™ presence and intelligence from the first time I was introduced to him, by Lester Bangs in 1975. He was… — Kate Simon
Bizarrely funny... Rarely is a documentary as well attuned to its subject as Howard Brookner's BURROUGHS, which captures as much about the life, work and… — Janet Maslin
Skullcrack City messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I'm a longtime fan of Johnson. A master… — Laird Barron
American naturalist John Burroughs put it, â€œA man can fail many times, but he isnâ€™t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. — Jeff Olson
I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an… — Allen Ginsberg
When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective… — Patti Smith
I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the… — Hunter S. Thompson
Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the vice-president,… — William Gibson
As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in… — William S. Burroughs
when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow. — William S. Burroughs
Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan? — Robert A. Heinlein

Who Wrote These Burroughs Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 26 Burroughs Quotes as follows: