Burroughs Quote by Yannis Philippakis Download Open image “I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs.” — Yannis Philippakis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Burroughs Simple Writing
I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me… — Lee Pace Copy Share Image
I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off. — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off. — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm used to writing short stories, which is primarily what I like to read. — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I started growing roses. I enjoyed the craft of it and that they're difficult to look after; they can provide joy. — Yannis Philippakis Copy Share Image
By the time you finish touring the record, everything that's exciting to me is what's ahead of me. I want to write the next… — Yannis Philippakis Copy Share Image
I'm appalled by the tendency of some rock records to perfect everything to the point where it sounds like Botox and polish it so… — Yannis Philippakis Copy Share Image
When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something. — Yannis Philippakis Copy Share Image
I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B; I got into some Good God gospel compilations. — Yannis Philippakis Copy Share Image
If you can express something in the simplest way possible, I think there's something noble in that. It's easy to flesh stuff out and… — Yannis Philippakis Copy Share Image
You can get into a comfort zone writing lyrics, like wearing a mask. But I wanted to feel uncomfortable when I was listening back… — Yannis Philippakis Copy Share Image
I never want to listen to the songs in front of people close to me. There's an emotional honesty in that place where it's… — Yannis Philippakis Copy Share Image
Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write. — Yannis Philippakis Copy Share Image
I'm definitely preoccupied by thinking I'm just a biological thing. I want to feel that there's more, but so often I'm reminded of how… — Yannis Philippakis Copy Share Image
I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential. — Yannis Philippakis Copy Share Image
I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing. — Yannis Philippakis 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
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
People talk about this often in the art world. The press releases have reached a level of absurdity and creativity - creative absurdity -… — David Salle Copy Share Image
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