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“Naked Lunch was from about a thousand pages of material. A lot of it overflowed, then, into the cut-up trilogy including Nova Express.”

Quote by William S. Burroughs

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William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs was an American novelist known for his unique writing style and his significant influence on postmodern literature. His works often involve social criticism, political satire, and surrealistic elements. more

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“I think Judge Learned Hand was a cultured, intelligent man.”

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Author:William S. Burroughs

“You see, should I stand in front of a landscape and paint it, I'm completely ignoring the factor of time. While I am painting it, it's changing, clouds are changing, all sorts of things. So there's the myth there of someone creating in a timeless vacuum.”

Should Fronts Painting Creating Paint Clouds Myth Factors Landscape Should I Timeless Vacuums

Author:William S. Burroughs

“I was thinking about New Mexico, and I rounded the corner in New York, and there was a New Mexico license plate: "New Mexico, land of enchantment."”

Thinking Land New York Corners Mexico Plates License Enchantment New Mexico License Plate

Author:William S. Burroughs

“Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not . . . true, not in accord with the facts of human perception.”

Writing Humans Facts Life Is Perception Paint Timeless Accord Vacuums

Author:William S. Burroughs

“Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.”

Knows Men World Fighting Asks Adam

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“The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.”

Way Firsts Wells Made Ideas Ends Would Be Lasts Remember Order Perfect Majors Moved Proof Naked Lunch Chapters Printer Major Change Why Change

Author:William S. Burroughs

“I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.”

Ideas Black Addiction Meat Narcotics

Book:Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997

Source: Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997

“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.”

Writing Trying Two Book Different Remember Film Novel Faithful Different Things No Point Being Faithful

Author:William S. Burroughs

“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.”

People Has Beens Made Book Seems Might Film Interest Saws Disease Died Dust Made It Might Have Been Mummy

Author:William S. Burroughs

“I read Mailer's Ancient Evenings with great interest because I was interested in . . . the seven souls structure, which was very helpful to me in Western Lands. And also in Place of Dead Roads. So that's Mailer.”

Soul Interest Land Structure Western Seven Ancient Evening Helpful

Author:William S. Burroughs