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I met William Burroughs in 1971. I got his address through a magazine and went to London to spend time with him.

— Genesis P-Orridge

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

I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.

— Oliver Harris

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

— William S. Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs taught me pace and gave me a sense of action and adventure.

— Joe R. Lansdale

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

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

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

My father shared the ethos of many of the beat writers and was a friend of Allen Ginsberg. Probably for 25 years of my…

— Anne Waldman

“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

I was first inspired to make music by my cousin Oran. He was making music on an old Mac II by himself in his…

— Flying Lotus

After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and…

— Conrad Veidt