William S. Burroughs Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.

  William S. Burroughs

  Book, Writing, Exercise

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'

  William S. Burroughs

  Book, America, Waiting

• The underground press serves as the only effective counter to a growing power, and more sophisticated techniques used by establishment mass media to falsify, misrepresent, misquote, rule out of consideration as a priori ridiculous, or simply ignore and blot out of existence: data, books, discoveries that they consider prejudicial to establishment interest.

  William S. Burroughs

  Book, Discovery, Media

  William S. Burroughs (1979). “Ah Pook is here, and other texts”, Calder Publications Limited

• Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine — Burn the books — Kill the priests — Kill! Kill! Kill!

  William S. Burroughs

  Book, Cutting, Machines

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.199, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Always remember, there's no point trying to be faithful to the book because film and writing are just two completely different things. Any film stands on its own, apart from whether it's based on a novel.

  William S. Burroughs

  Book, Writing, Two

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

• There's a book called Mummy and the people actually seem to have become addicted to mummy dust. And mummy dust was somehow made from people who've died of the most loathsome diseases. It's too bad that [David] Cronenberg didn't see this book, see I only saw it after the film was made. It might have been of interest to him.

  William S. Burroughs

  Book, Dust, People

  Interview with Allen Ginsberg, sensitiveskinmagazine.com. March 1992.

• Victimless crimes are the lifeline of the RIGHT virus. And there is a growing recognition, even in official quarters, that victimless crimes should be removed from the books or subject to minimal penalties.

  William S. Burroughs

  Book, Viruses, Growing

  William S. Burroughs (2013). “The Place of Dead Roads: A Novel”, p.155, Holt Paperbacks

• I read a lot of books for information, like doctor books, spy books. . . .

  William S. Burroughs

  Book, Doctors, Spy

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

• Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through.

  William S. Burroughs

  Book, Exorcism, Shamanism

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

• When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

  William S. Burroughs

  Lying, Book, Men

  William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz (2001). “Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs”, p.53, Grove Press

• Well, "disgusting" doesn't refer to the books but to the subjective reaction of the person making the complaint. I don't think that anything is disgusting per se. These words "disgusting" and "filthy," etc., have prevented us from undertaking any scientific experimentation in sexual matters.

  William S. Burroughs

  Book, Thinking, Matter

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

• It's a tract against capital punishment in the genre of Swift's Modest Proposal. I was simply following a formula to its logical conclusion. Some people appear to have understood it. The publication of Naked Lunch in England practically coincided with their abolition of capital punishment. The book obviously had a certain effect.

  William S. Burroughs

  Book, Punishment, Lunch

  Source: www.stopsmilingonline.com

• I'm against Capitol Punishment in all forms, and I have written many pamphlets on this subject in the manner of Swift's Modest Proposal pamphlet incorporated into Naked Lunch; these pamphlets have marked Naked Lunch as an obscene book.

  William S. Burroughs

  Book, Lunch, Punishment

  Source: realitystudio.org

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