Frases de Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs fue un escritor de género fantástico célebre por sus series de historias de Barsoom , de Pellucidar y, en especial, por la creación del mundialmente famoso personaje de Tarzán.

✵ 1. septiembre 1875 – 19. marzo 1950
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“In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.”

Edgar Rice Burroughs libro A Princess of Mars

Fuente: A Princess of Mars

“A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart.”

Edgar Rice Burroughs libro A Princess of Mars

Fuente: A Princess of Mars

“You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously”

Edgar Rice Burroughs libro The Land That Time Forgot

Fuente: The Land That Time Forgot

“I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other.”

Edgar Rice Burroughs libro Tarzán de los monos

First lines, Ch. 1 : Out to Sea
Fuente: Tarzan of the Apes (1912)
Contexto: I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.

“I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.”

Edgar Rice Burroughs libro A Princess of Mars

Fuente: A Princess of Mars

“Tarzan of the Apes had decided to mark his evolution from the lower orders in every possible manner, and nothing seemed to him a more distinguishing badge of manhood than ornaments and clothing.
To this end, therefore, he collected the various arm and leg ornaments he had taken from the black warriors who had succumbed to his swift and silent noose, and donned them all after the way he had seen them worn.
About his neck hung the golden chain from which depended the diamond encrusted locket of his mother, the Lady Alice. At his back was a quiver of arrows slung from a leathern shoulder belt, another piece of loot from some vanquished black.
About his waist was a belt of tiny strips of rawhide fashioned by himself as a support for the home-made scabbard in which hung his father's hunting knife. The long bow which had been Kulonga's hung over his left shoulder.
The young Lord Greystoke was indeed a strange and war-like figure, his mass of black hair falling to his shoulders behind and cut with his hunting knife to a rude bang upon his forehead, that it might not fall before his eyes.
His straight and perfect figure, muscled as the best of the ancient Roman gladiators must have been muscled, and yet with the soft and sinuous curves of a Greek god, told at a glance the wondrous combination of enormous strength with suppleness and speed.”

Edgar Rice Burroughs libro Tarzán de los monos

Fuente: Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Ch. 13 : His Own Kind

“I had gone thoroughly through some of the all-fiction magazines and I made up my mind that if people were paid for writing such rot as I read I could write stories just as rotten. Although I had never written a story, I knew absolutely that I could write stories just as entertaining and probably a lot more so than any I chanced to read in those magazines.
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. I had never met an editor, or an author or a publisher. l had no idea of how to submit a story or what I could expect in payment. Had I known anything about it at all I would never have thought of submitting half a novel; but that is what I did.
Thomas Newell Metcalf, who was then editor of The All-Story magazine, published by Munsey, wrote me that he liked the first half of a story I had sent him, and if the second half was as good he thought he might use it. Had he not given me this encouragement, I would never have finished the story, and my writing career would have been at an end, since l was not writing because of any urge to write, nor for any particular love of writing. l was writing because I had a wife and two babies, a combination which does not work well without money.”

How I Wrote the Tarzan Books (1929)

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