Jack Kerouac did what he most wanted to do. He wrote great…

“I realized Jack [Kerouac] was deeply committed to writing. Kesey was just as deeply committed to living and experiencing the lives of others; for…

— Sterling Lord

“I was impressed with Jack [Kerouac]’s commitment to serious writing at the expense of everything else in his life. At a time when the…

— Sterling Lord

The truest form of any form of revolutionary left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, and Allan Ginsberg's period.…

— David Bowie

“Capote's rejoinder to the Kerouac assertion that he never needed to edit his writing: "That's not writing .That's typing.”

— Joseph Cavano

My golden dream was to move to New York and live in the Village and become that cool rebel beatnik Jack Kerouac.

— Kevin Kwan

Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara. O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac

— Frank O'Hara

Kerouac was this kid who exemplified something happening.

— Howard Rheingold

I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as they interacted…

— Joyce Johnson

I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer.…

— Garrett Hedlund

Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just fall into…

— Christopher McDougall

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.

— Rupert Penry-Jones

Kerouac's books portray a hero and narrator free and easy, confident, sure of his rebellion against the American system. In reality, Jack was torn…

— Gerald Nicosia

Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his so-called life.…

— William S. Burroughs

The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.

— Hanif Kureishi

“...Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left hand is doing'... Page 100.”

— Jack Kerouac