Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

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

business story

I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

writing storytelling jungle

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.

literature fiction

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

imagination existence mentality invisible

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

life science-fiction

Two keen eyes had watched every move of the party from the foliage of a nearby tree. Tarzan had seen the surprise caused by his notice, and while he could understand nothing of the spoken language of these strange people their gestures and facial expressions told him much.

people language

For months the life of the little band went on much as it had before, except that Tarzan's greater intelligence and his ability as a hunter were the means of providing for them more bountifully than ever before. Most of them, therefore, were more than content with the change in rulers.

life ability content intelligence change

In Tarzan's clever little mind many thoughts revolved, and back of these was his divine power of reason. If he could catch his fellow apes with his long arm of many grasses, why not Sabor, the lioness?

mind power