Burroughs Quote by Oliver Harris Download Open image “I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.” — Oliver Harris ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Burroughs He man Men Myth Storytelling William Burroughs
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
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
All of William S. Burroughs friends pushed it forward and introduced me to one another. I was able to enter into that beat family… — Yony Leyser Copy Share Image
Edgar Rice Burroughs taught me pace and gave me a sense of action and adventure. — Joe R. Lansdale 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
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
“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
That rewriting of literary history is most obvious in the case of The Yage Letters, where I was able to show that the true… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
I have really been fortunate, incredibly privileged, to have done so much editorial work, and I would love to do more. But just as… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
Of course, for me Naked Lunch was the big one, but I still believe I was right to pass on that. James Grauerholz and… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
A good deal of editing a manuscript looks like mechanical work, as if anyone with time on their hands and a magnifying glass could… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
It started out as a typically insane idea to map every part of the published text in terms of its manuscript provenance and history,… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
I like to focus on the varieties of paper, the different sizes and watermarks, evidence perhaps of what was typed when and sometimes where… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
I am always looking for some clue, some easily missed sign that might just be the missing piece in the puzzle. — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I liked the idea of a person shedding their life, and someone else putting it on. -Oliver Harris on writing The Hollow Man for… — Oliver Harris 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
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 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
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