William Burroughs
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.
—William Burroughs, A Word to the Wise Guy
Posted on April 11, 2001 at 12:35 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognised as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.
—William Burroughs, The Adding Machine
Posted on January 22, 2002 at 6:10 AM
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