--- title: "3 Kerouac Quotes By Joyce Johnson" description: "3 Kerouac quotes by Joyce Johnson. Plus more from Joyce Johnson and more Kerouac sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c02/joyce-johnson-25979_body_i-was-always-aware-that-jack-loved-women_381137.jpg" --- > [I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-johnson/i-was-always-aware-that-jack-loved-women-not-only-for-their-bodies/) [Joyce Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c02/joyce-johnson-25979_body_i-was-always-aware-that-jack-loved-women_381137.jpg) > [Jack Kerouac did what he most wanted to do. He wrote great prose. He became the writer he wanted to be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-johnson/jack-kerouac-did-what-he-most-wanted-to-do-he-wrote-great-prose-he/) [Joyce Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c3/joyce-johnson-25979_kerouac_jack-kerouac-did-what-he-most-wanted-to_2460073.jpg) > [Jack Kerouac seems to have been preoccupied with the question of duality from a very young age. He seemed to feel that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-johnson/jack-kerouac-seems-to-have-been-preoccupied-with-the-question-of/) [Joyce Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8f/joyce-johnson-25979_age_jack-kerouac-seems-to-have-been-preoccup_2999427.jpg) ## Other authors on Kerouac ## More by Joyce Johnson > [I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-johnson/i-believe-in-the-curative-powers-of-love-as-the-english-believe-in/) [Joyce Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-johnson/) > [Sacrificing everything for one's craft is something some people can't help. They can't help themselves. They must do it. They're driven to do it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-johnson/sacrificing-everything-for-one-s-craft-is-something-some-people-can-t/) [Joyce Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-johnson/) > [I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as they interacted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-johnson/i-was-always-aware-that-jack-loved-women-not-only-for-their-bodies/) [Joyce Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-johnson/) > [If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-johnson/if-time-were-like-a-passage-of-music-you-could-keep-going-back-to-it/) [Joyce Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-johnson/) > [I think art, the discipline of creating, really does require tremendous solitude. But the whole creative process can seal your life to such an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-johnson/i-think-art-the-discipline-of-creating-really-does-require-tremendous/) [Joyce Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-johnson/) > [Nothing ever happened except God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-johnson/nothing-ever-happened-except-god/) [Joyce Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-johnson/) > [Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-johnson/legend-adheres-to-artists-whose-deaths-seem-the-corollaries-of-their/) [Joyce Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-johnson/) > [We tend to make up the people we fall in love with](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-johnson/we-tend-to-make-up-the-people-we-fall-in-love-with/) [Joyce Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-johnson/) > [We derive a lot of the reality of ourselves through interactions with others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-johnson/we-derive-a-lot-of-the-reality-of-ourselves-through-interactions-with/) [Joyce Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-johnson/) > [Fame and success put tremendous demands on people. It robs them of their necessary privacy and anonymity. That's hard for even healthy people to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-johnson/fame-and-success-put-tremendous-demands-on-people-it-robs-them-of/) [Joyce Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-johnson/) > [A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-johnson/a-lot-of-artists-don-t-survive-do-they-you-work-very-hard-and-finally/) [Joyce Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-johnson/) > [media saturation is probably very destructive to art. New movements get overexposed and exhausted before they have a chance to grow, and they turn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-johnson/media-saturation-is-probably-very-destructive-to-art-new-movements/) [Joyce Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-johnson/) > [I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-johnson/i-d-learned-myself-by-the-age-of-sixteen-that-just-as-girls-guarded/) [Joyce Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-johnson/) > [I think even celebrities deserve their privacy. I really do. It's sort of a hideous spectacle, the public feeding on all this information.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-johnson/i-think-even-celebrities-deserve-their-privacy-i-really-do-it-s-sort/) [Joyce Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-johnson/) > [I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-johnson/i-became-intent-on-saving-him-through-showing-him-that-he-was-loved/) [Joyce Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-johnson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/kerouac/joyce-johnson/#itemlist", "name": "3 Kerouac Quotes By Joyce Johnson", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as they interacted with him-they were part of his “road,” the infinite range of experience that always had to remain open to fuel his work.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Joyce Johnson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-johnson/i-was-always-aware-that-jack-loved-women-not-only-for-their-bodies/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c02/joyce-johnson-25979_body_i-was-always-aware-that-jack-loved-women_381137.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c02/joyce-johnson-25979_body_i-was-always-aware-that-jack-loved-women_381137.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c02/joyce-johnson-25979_body_i-was-always-aware-that-jack-loved-women_381137.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being…” — Joyce Johnson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Jack Kerouac did what he most wanted to do. 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