To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me. — Rupert Penry-Jones Copy Share Image
“Most road trips in China these days are still more John Steinbeck than Jack Kerouac,” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I knew [Timothy] Leary, but barely knew, didn't really know Jan [Kerouac]. — William S. Burroughs 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
Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
My reasoning, if one can call it that, was inflamed by the scatter shot passions of youth and a literary diet overly… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara. O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac — Frank O'Hara 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
Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his… — William S. Burroughs 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
“Capote's rejoinder to the Kerouac assertion that he never needed to edit his writing: "That's not writing .That's typing.” — Joseph Cavano Copy Share Image
I was an absolute idiot, wearing polo-necks, reading Kerouac, watching Woody Allen movies, and jazz fitted right into all of that. My… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as… — Joyce Johnson 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
“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
I haven't changed my views much since I was about 12, really, I've just got a 12-year-old mentality.When I was in school… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“I have tonight begun reading a stupid, shitty book by Kerouac called Big Sur , and I would give a ball to… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had… — Garrett Hedlund 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
“We all grew up, those of us who took On the Road to heart. We came to cringe a little at our… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent countless kids on the… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Yet the voice could take fright . This Kathy Kerouac foresaw only too well when syllables suddenly started coming out of her… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Kerouac's books portray a hero and narrator free and easy, confident, sure of his rebellion against the American system. In reality, Jack… — Gerald Nicosia 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
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
Kerouac was a breeze, some kind of incredible super-American, mythos personality blasting through the highways of 1947 America. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“...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 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
“Around Jack (Kerouac) there circulated a palpable aura of fame and death.” — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“Capote's rejoinder to Kerouac's assertion that he never needed to edit his work…"But, that's not writing . That's typing.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“There's a guy, Anatole Broyard, of the N. Y. Times Book Review, who's still chasing Kerouac's corpse with a stiletto.” — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
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![“I realized Jack [Kerouac] was deeply committed to writing. Kesey was just as deeply committed to living and experiencing the lives of others; for him writing was just a part of living.” quote by Sterling Lord](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f1a/sterling-lord-55520_art-of-living_i-realized-jack-kerouac-was-deeply-commi_11675.jpg)
![“As a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of [Jack] Kerouac and others.” quote by Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c5b/anne-waldman-4046_feds_as-a-woman-i-have-felt-encouraged-and-fe_986092.jpg)
![“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)
