Arab Quote by Hunter S. Thompson

[Jack] Kerouac was writing fiction. What he did when he wrote about me...he made me out with Russian Countesses and Swiss accounts and other…

— William S. Burroughs

Jack Kerouac did what he most wanted to do. He wrote great prose. He became the writer he wanted to be.

— Joyce Johnson

I was highly influenced by violence.

— Ryan Gosling

Kerouac's books portray a hero and narrator free and easy, confident, sure of his rebellion against the American system. In reality, Jack was torn…

— Gerald Nicosia

Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

— Ai Weiwei

“Around Jack (Kerouac) there circulated a palpable aura of fame and death.”

— Gary Snyder

I was very influenced by films and books like 'Serpico,' 'The French Connection,' and 'Prince of the City.' They were some of the reasons…

— Don Winslow

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

— Kenneth Koch

As a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of [Jack] Kerouac and others.

— Anne Waldman

“I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographical novel about Jack Kerouac,…

— Cory Doctorow

As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery O'Conner, Carson…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.

— Thom Gunn