To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me. — Rupert Penry-Jones Copy Share Image
As a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of [Jack] Kerouac and others. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“Most road trips in China these days are still more John Steinbeck than Jack Kerouac,” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Jack Kerouac did what he most wanted to do. He wrote great prose. He became the writer he wanted to be. — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
“Around Jack (Kerouac) there circulated a palpable aura of fame and death.” — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
My golden dream was to move to New York and live in the Village and become that cool rebel beatnik Jack Kerouac. — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
“I realized Jack [Kerouac] was deeply committed to writing. Kesey was just as deeply committed to living and experiencing the lives of… — Sterling Lord Copy Share Image
“Bill said I was 'developing' at a rapid pace and gave me a different kind of book as a 'reward'. It's On… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
The truest form of any form of revolutionary Left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, & Ginsberg's… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Growing up in San Antonio, I was the dork at the Friday night football games with my head buried in a book… — Amy Chozick Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Khaki trousers soon became the province of hipsters like Jack Kerouac and Miles Davis. They were taken to new heights by Ralph… — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I like California because it still has the glamour and romanticism and exoticism of a very foreign place. It was the place… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I studied art at Queens College, taking very few courses in literature. But I've always loved reading poetry and grew up enjoying… — Douglas Florian Copy Share Image
The road has been viewed as a male turf. If you think of the classic "Odyssey," of, you know, classical literature or… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“I was impressed with Jack [Kerouac]’s commitment to serious writing at the expense of everything else in his life. At a time… — Sterling Lord Copy Share Image
The truest form of any form of revolutionary left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, and Allan… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“writers like Jack Kerouac (who called himself an "urban Thoreau") set forth to redefine and rediscover ways to live in America without… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Unable to forgive his own sins, unsatisfied with just the goodness of his heart, [Kerouac] would go on poisoning his body until… — Gerald Nicosia Copy Share Image
“I become a transparent eyeball,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in “Nature.” “I am nothing; I see all.” Lord Byron called it “the… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“Not aimless. Not in the least. It's just that my aims are different from most. There are plenty of aimless people on… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Here’s a thing Jack Kerouac said: ‘What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographical novel about… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Imperial is like Robert Caro’s The Power Broker with the attitude of Mike Davis’s City of Quartz, if Robert Caro had been… — Sam Anderson - NY Magazine Copy Share Image
“Did the tea-time of your soul Make you long for wilder days Did you never let Jack Kerouac Wash over you in… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Even Jack Kerouac, who famously said, "First thought, best thought," benefited from editing. His earliest works are the most edited, and they're… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
“It feels like I went right from pubescent to senior citizen. But what are you going to do? I'm lucky I caught… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“IF YOU WANT A DOG TO STOP KISSING YOU, turn your head away silently like another dog. —Jack Kerouac Some of the… — William Lashner Copy Share Image
“Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I think Visions of Cody is the most radical book in terms of poetic stretch and the way Jack Kerouac is able… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I used to take 'Visions of Cody' by Jack Kerouac on tour all the time. I don't really love Kerouac, but that… — Jamie Hince Copy Share Image
When I grew up in the early '90s, the new World Wide Web felt like a gimmick, and I had no idea… — Tony D'Souza Copy Share Image
“My brother was one of the bigger influences in my life, in as much as he told me I didn't have to… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
When [Allen] Ginsberg and I founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics - that was 1974 - we referred to it… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
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![“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 middle class was burgeoning with new homes, two-tone American cars, and black-and-white TVs, when American happiness was defined by upwardly mobile consumerism…” quote by Sterling Lord](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/996/sterling-lord-55520_happiness_i-was-impressed-with-jack-kerouac-s-comm_36815.jpg)
![“Unable to forgive his own sins, unsatisfied with just the goodness of his heart, [Kerouac] would go on poisoning his body until it rotted around him, rotted, bloated, exploded, and fell away to let the pure Jack Kerouac, the saint, escape free at last - remembered only as a ghost.” quote by Gerald Nicosia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5d6/gerald-nicosia-60496_forgiveness_unable-to-forgive-his-own-sins-unsatisfi_1005898.jpg)
![“When [Allen] Ginsberg and I founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics - that was 1974 - we referred to it by a term used by Sufi thinker Hakim Bey, as "temporary autonomous zones." That for me sums up some of Whitman's sense of a community of likeminded people with a certain kind of…” quote by Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a5f/anne-waldman-4046_autonomous_when-allen-ginsberg-and-i-founded-the-ja_2839594.jpg)