Oliver Harris Quotes

• I am always looking for some clue, some easily missed sign that might just be the missing piece in the puzzle.

  Oliver Harris

  Missing, Pieces, Might

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• That rewriting of literary history is most obvious in the case of The Yage Letters, where I was able to show that the true history inverts the official one.

  Oliver Harris

  Letters, Able, Rewriting

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• A good deal of editing a manuscript looks like mechanical work, as if anyone with time on their hands and a magnifying glass could do it. But at a certain point, you need a strong interpretive conviction and, as you say, an "intangible" relationship to what you are doing.

  Oliver Harris

  Strong, Glasses, Editing

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• I like to focus on the varieties of paper, the different sizes and watermarks, evidence perhaps of what was typed when and sometimes where and by whom.

  Oliver Harris

  Focus, Different, Paper

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• I have really been fortunate, incredibly privileged, to have done so much editorial work, and I would love to do more. But just as my editions have tried to balance the familiar with the new, the commercial with the scholarly, so too I have to admit that I don't want to do editing for the sake of it, and some possible projects would be of uncertain value to me.

  Oliver Harris

  Editing, Balance, Would Be

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• Of course, for me Naked Lunch was the big one, but I still believe I was right to pass on that. James Grauerholz and Barry Miles did an important job with their 2003 "Restored" edition because they knew what they wanted to do, and what they could do. At the time, I simply didn't know. I hadn't even edited Junky back then. So I did the right thing to pass. Instead, what I most want to do now is complete "The Making of Naked Lunch," on which I have been working, on and off, these past 25 years.

  Oliver Harris

  Jobs, Believe, Past

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• It started out as a typically insane idea to map every part of the published text in terms of its manuscript provenance and history, and to establish the cultural meaning of the book, part and whole.

  Oliver Harris

  Book, Ideas, Insane

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• Cuento esta anécdota en tono irónico al principio de mi libro William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, pero mi relación académica con Burroughs se debió enteramente a mi tutor en Oxford, Peter Conrad. Estaba discutiendo con él la idea de quedarme para hacer un postgrado y cuando mencioné el nombre de Burroughs en la conversación... bueno, él lo dejó caer estrepitosamente al suelo y se persignó como si estuviera ahuyentando a un espíritu maligno. Como, en cualquier caso, yo era muy ambivalente respecto a una carrera académica, eso me decidió.

  Oliver Harris

  Book, Fall, Names

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• I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.

  Oliver Harris

  Men, He Man, Burroughs

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