Quotes About Edgar Rice Burroughs

When I was a boy in the late 1950s, the public library refused to stock books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They were regarded as vulgar, ill-written potboilers.

The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

Captain Billings, he drawled finally, if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are something of an ass.

help yourselves to equilibrimotors and pray to your ancestors that no air patrol suspects you as you cross the city towards your destination. What think you of this plan, Gor Hajus?" "It is splendid," replied the assassin. "And you, Vad Varo?" "If I knew what an equilibrimotor is I might be in a better position to judge the merits of the plan," I replied.

I fear that there is something more serious than accident here, Mr. Brently, said the captain.

Your Paris is more dangerous than my savage jungles, Paul, concluded Tarzan

P38- little tarzan, which was the name they had given to the tiny lord greystoke and which meant white skin

To say that Nikolas Rokoff is a devil would be to place a wanton affront upon his satanic majesty.

On the way home that night he purchased a steam yacht, and built a million-dollar villa on the Black Sea.

I didn't read comic books, growing up. I was more of a science fiction/fantasy novel guy. I loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' 'Tarzan' and that kind of stuff.

We are between the wild thoat of certainty and the mad zitidar of fact.

The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

You can't be a 21st-century science fiction writer writing about Mars without doing tips of the hat to Edgar Rice Burroughs, to Ray Bradbury, to H.G. Wells, to the guys who first put it in the public imagination that Mars was an exciting place.

This was the Mars that inspired some of the greatest works early science fiction, including H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (1897), in which the Martians reverse the Avatar story where aliens come to our world for its resources-including human blood! and Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom novels, beginning wi A Princess of Mars, serialised from 1912.

I wish I had more control, more like Edgar Rice Burroughs had, but I'm a realist, too. I work in television. I don't know that I would want to spend the rest of my life controlling my characters.