Writing Quotes by Jack Kerouac

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

— Jack Kerouac

I really hate to write.

— Jack Kerouac

Details are the Life of Prose.

— Jack Kerouac

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

— Jack Kerouac

“Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not "publishing's" - ”

— Jack Kerouac

Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.

— Jack Kerouac

Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

— Jack Kerouac

Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind.

— Jack Kerouac

No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge

— Jack Kerouac

Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour.

— Jack Kerouac

Something that you feel will find its own form.

— Jack Kerouac

Oftentimes an originator of new language forms is called 'pretentious' by jealous talents. But it ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha…

— Jack Kerouac

“I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life - This part is my part of the movie,…

— Jack Kerouac

“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

And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an…

— Jack Kerouac

Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad…

— Jack Kerouac

I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

— Jack Kerouac

“I see the whole thing popping and parenthesizing in every direction, the story of that house and that kitchen.”

— Jack Kerouac

“Did I come into this world thru the womb of my mother the earth just so I could talk and write like…

— Jack Kerouac

A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a…

— Jack Kerouac

The words are clear as in the reflection of the world on the water. Therefore write the Word at once, everywhere, from…

— Jack Kerouac

I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive…

— Jack Kerouac

I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now… ... it's not…

— Jack Kerouac

All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of…

— Jack Kerouac

Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down…

— Jack Kerouac

Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly…

— Jack Kerouac

I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one…

— Jack Kerouac

Anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators…

— Jack Kerouac

I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead,…

— Jack Kerouac

“I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now, and the attacks…

— Jack Kerouac

“Looking up occasionally to see rare cars crossing the high bridge and wondering what they'd see on this drear foggy night if…

— Jack Kerouac

“And this is not the happiness of a magazine writer who sends in his gay little philosophy of life to the editor…

— Jack Kerouac

“Praised be I, writing, dead already and dead again”

— Jack Kerouac

Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything

— Jack Kerouac

If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?

— Jack Kerouac

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

— Jack Kerouac

Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind,

— Jack Kerouac

Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all…

— Jack Kerouac

Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her…

— Jack Kerouac

Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.

— Jack Kerouac