Accomplished Quote by Jack Kerouac

Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.

— Jack Kerouac

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

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

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

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

I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but my academic…

— Oliver Harris

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

— William S. Burroughs

Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.

— Joan Didion

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

“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

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…

— Patti Smith

Alan Zweibel is the funniest writer in the world. He might be even funnier when he's naked, but I'm afraid to find out.

— Dave Barry