Kerouac Quote by Joyce Johnson

Jack Kerouac seems to have been preoccupied with the question of duality from a very young age. He seemed to feel that there was…

— Joyce Johnson

I'm often a little perplexed, when I read a review of a book, by the quotes that are pulled out as evidence of excellent…

— Katie Kitamura

“Great prose isn't always easy but it's always lucid.”

— B.R. Myers

Even Jack Kerouac, who famously said, "First thought, best thought," benefited from editing. His earliest works are the most edited, and they're the best…

— K. M. Soehnlein

“writers like Jack Kerouac (who called himself an "urban Thoreau") set forth to redefine and rediscover ways to live in America without slogging through…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Most road trips in China these days are still more John Steinbeck than Jack Kerouac,”

— Anonymous

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

“Unable to forgive his own sins, unsatisfied with just the goodness of his heart, [Kerouac] would go on poisoning his body until it rotted…

— Gerald Nicosia

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

— Anne Waldman

Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent.

— Paul Theroux

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.

— Rupert Penry-Jones

My golden dream was to move to New York and live in the Village and become that cool rebel beatnik Jack Kerouac.

— Kevin Kwan