Art Quote by Yony Leyser

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

— William S. Burroughs

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

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

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

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

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 don't know of any artist who started off in the 50's who's making it now with new material.

— Don Everly

“Lester Dent died thinking his name and works belonged to a pulp past destined to be forgotten. Just a year before his passing, he…

— Kenneth Robeson

It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.

— Edgar Degas

“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

“Our first job as artists, then, is to venture out, away from what we think we know in search of the new and unexplored.…

— Jeff Goins

As long as artists can make something, artists will continue to survive.

— Victoria Legrand