Kerouac Quotes

25 quotes by 20 authors

Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages. — William S. Burroughs
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
Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just fall into a… — Christopher McDougall
A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_. — Edward Abbey
I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys — Harvey Pekar
The actual materials are important... A book at the nightstand is important-a light you can get at-or a flashlight as Kerouac had a brakeman's latern. — Allen Ginsberg
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the assumption that the… — Reginald Horace Blyth
Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed your… — Al Stewart
Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his so-called life. 'And… — William S. Burroughs
I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then… — Garrett Hedlund
When I grew up in the early '90s, the new World Wide Web felt like a gimmick, and I had no idea of the changes… — Tony D'Souza
I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an… — Allen Ginsberg
America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves… — Jaron Lanier
Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend. — Hunter S. Thompson
I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the… — Hunter S. Thompson
Jack Kerouac was cool because he had no idea he was. — Dennis Miller
Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara. O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac — Frank O'Hara
See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow and the rhythm,… — David Cronenberg
If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris… — Sarah Vowell
The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight. — Hanif Kureishi

Who Wrote These Kerouac Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 25 Kerouac Quotes as follows: