If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor. Edgar Rice Burroughs More Quotes by Edgar Rice Burroughs More Quotes From Edgar Rice Burroughs As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy and, raising his eyes to the full moon, threw back his fierce young head and voiced the wild and terrible cry of his people. Edgar Rice Burroughs eye moon feet Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream? Edgar Rice Burroughs alive dream reality Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things Edgar Rice Burroughs clothes animal men I write to escape ... to escape poverty. Edgar Rice Burroughs poverty writing For me, temperance is essential to good work. Edgar Rice Burroughs moderation good-work essentials They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality. Edgar Rice Burroughs intangible invisible imagination Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind. Edgar Rice Burroughs subconscious statistics mind I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life. Edgar Rice Burroughs powerful hate sleep 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. Edgar Rice Burroughs writing book years 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. Edgar Rice Burroughs tolerance hate running Imagination is but another name for super intelligence. Edgar Rice Burroughs imagination names In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers. Edgar Rice Burroughs happy-people lawyer people For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard. Edgar Rice Burroughs caught lions assuming I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand. Edgar Rice Burroughs believe Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger. Edgar Rice Burroughs human-nature strange love I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible. Edgar Rice Burroughs bows fate grace Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed. Edgar Rice Burroughs anger hate heart The jungle which is presided over by Kudu, the sun, is a very different jungle from that of Goro, the moon. The diurnal jungle has its own aspect--its own lights and shades, its own birds, its own blooms, its own beasts ... The lights and shades of the nocturnal jungle are as different as one might imagine the lights and shades of another world to differ from those of our world. Edgar Rice Burroughs our-world light moon This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been. Edgar Rice Burroughs nuisance clothes civilization I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it. Edgar Rice Burroughs framing stories
