Burroughs Quote by Joan Didion

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

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

As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium…

— William S. Burroughs

People talk about this often in the art world. The press releases have reached a level of absurdity and creativity - creative absurdity -…

— David Salle

“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

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

“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

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

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

In 1911, Edgar Rice Burroughs, having failed at everything else, decided to write a novel. He was then in his mid-thirties, married with two…

— Michael Dirda

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

— Jack Kerouac

“Burroughs ... his very junkhood an accomplishment beyond a million dollars.”

— Allen Ginsberg