I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Mainly I've been back to my books and writings and being nice and quiet and lazy. As I'm writing this, the radio… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not "publishing's" - ” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life - This part is my part of the movie,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“It seems to me now that my life is writing, be it only words without meaning...When I am 33 I shall put… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“For when you realized that God is Everything you know that you've got to love everything no matter how bad it is, in the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and the rest… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“And in the flush of the first few days of joy I confidently tell myself (not expecting what I'll do in three weeks only)… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“For the next week that was all I heard - manana, a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“O how wonderful life is, how miraculous, God made this and God made that", "how do you know he doesn't hate what He did:… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image