Burroughs Quote by Joan Didion

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

Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.

— Jack Kerouac

Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of…

— Brendan Fraser

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

— William S. Burroughs

“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

Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . The net result of Naked Lunch will be to make people shudder…

— Jack Kerouac

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.

— Tommy Lee Jones

The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool -…

— Gregory Corso

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

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

My early novels were very understated and English. Fourteen years ago, I met and married my American husband, and as I learned more about…

— Laurie Graham

One of the coolest ways to start building a character is the way he moves his mouth, what part of the mouth he puts…

— Cory Michael Smith