Burroughs Quote by Paul S. Kemp

'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations…

— Junot Diaz

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

— Joan Didion

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

[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

“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

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