Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughswas an American writer best known for his creations of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 September 1875
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
love-you fighting house
I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine. We live here together always in my house. I will bring you the best of fruits, the tenderest deer, the finest meats that roam the jungle. I will hunt for you. I am the greatest of the jungle fighters. I will fight for you. I am the mightiest of the jungle fighters. You are Jane Porter, I saw it in your letter. When you see this you will know that it is for you and that Tarzan of the Apes loves you.
reading people fiction
No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.
book writing years
I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although with the publication of my new novel, "Tarzan and the Lost Empire", there are 31 books on my list.
space monotonous
Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.
running hate tolerance
Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things outside their own callings, a capacity for love and a capacity for hate, for such as these can look with tolerance upon all, unbiased by the egotism of him whose head is so heavy on one side that all his brains run to that point.
problem cures
exsistance is not the cure it is the problem
hero believe stuff
I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later.
men brave solitude
Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.
writing rotten stories
I could write stories just as rotten.
people may sense-of-humor
It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.
mind statistics subconscious
Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.
foundation statistics theory
Even theories must have foundations.
brain statistics logic
Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?
children men desire
Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?