The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me. — Rupert Penry-Jones Copy Share Image
“Around Jack (Kerouac) there circulated a palpable aura of fame and death.” — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I knew [Timothy] Leary, but barely knew, didn't really know Jan [Kerouac]. — William S. Burroughs 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So… — Al Stewart 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
If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that's all you read, like you don't know anything else about… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
I was pretty partial to Kerouac and I also liked Flannery O'Connor and the Southern Gothic writing and local writers, like Jesse… — Tyler Childers 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 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
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
“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
“I sit down and say, and I run all my friends and relatives and enemies one by one in this, without entertaining… — Jack Kerouac 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
“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
“For Kerouac, the embodiment of American Zen was Gary Snyder, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Buddhist poet and essayist, who he fictionalized as Japhy… — Joel Dinerstein 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
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
“Most road trips in China these days are still more John Steinbeck than Jack Kerouac,” — Anonymous 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
“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
“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
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