Burroughs Quote by Jack Kerouac Download Open image “Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.” — Jack Kerouac ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Burroughs Jonathan Swift Satirical Writing
Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . The net result of Naked Lunch will be to make people shudder… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American. — Joan Didion 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 ounce of… — Truman Capote 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
I go back to read 'Tarzan' books every now and again or 'John Carter,' and you realize Edgar Rice Burroughs is not a great… — Shane Black 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. Telling the truth.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Read together, these two completed narratives constitute the saga of an exemplary twentieth-century American unsentimental education, in which the generosity of Billy Burroughs’s spirit… — William S. Burroughs Jr 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
Burroughs called his greatest novel Naked Lunch, by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. He's a writer… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I'm easily persuaded that a really good novelist who gets inside somebody else's head could be serving a valuable purpose. I enjoy satirical novels… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman,… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books. — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“For when you realized that God is Everything you know that you've got to love everything no matter how bad it is, in the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and the rest… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“And in the flush of the first few days of joy I confidently tell myself (not expecting what I'll do in three weeks only)… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“For the next week that was all I heard - manana, a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“O how wonderful life is, how miraculous, God made this and God made that", "how do you know he doesn't hate what He did:… — Jack Kerouac 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 with the… — William Gibson 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
[william] Burroughs, incidentally, took up the slogan that we are "Here to go", which contradicts the tendency in Eastern mysticism to advocate staying where… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Burroughs ... his very junkhood an accomplishment beyond a million dollars.” — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . The net result of Naked Lunch will be to make people shudder… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American. — Joan Didion 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
Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“What's with the serum?" I don't know, but it sounds ominous. We better put a telepathic direction finder on Benway. The man's not to… — William S. Burroughs 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 other. Ridiculous… — Anonymous 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 engaged in… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
People talk about this often in the art world. The press releases have reached a level of absurdity and creativity - creative absurdity -… — David Salle Copy Share Image
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