[Jack] Kerouac was writing fiction. What he did when he…

“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 just love crazy people like this,' Murphy said. 'Jack Kerouac people. Mad to live, mad to die, that kind of thing.”

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

Growing up in San Antonio, I was the dork at the Friday night football games with my head buried in a book - Jack…

— Amy Chozick

Even Jack Kerouac, who famously said, "First thought, best thought," benefited from editing. His earliest works are the most edited, and they're the best…

— K. M. Soehnlein

“writers like Jack Kerouac (who called himself an "urban Thoreau") set forth to redefine and rediscover ways to live in America without slogging through…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Most road trips in China these days are still more John Steinbeck than Jack Kerouac,”

— Anonymous

Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.

— Edward Abbey

“Unable to forgive his own sins, unsatisfied with just the goodness of his heart, [Kerouac] would go on poisoning his body until it rotted…

— Gerald Nicosia

As a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of [Jack] Kerouac and others.

— Anne Waldman

Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent.

— Paul Theroux

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

— Rupert Penry-Jones

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

— Kevin Kwan

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

“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

Jack Kerouac was cool because he had no idea he was.

— Dennis Miller