Accounts Quote by 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

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.…

— William S. Burroughs

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

— Gary Snyder

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

“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

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

Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special.

— David Amram

“All the characters in my book are fictional, but every single one of them was inspired by someone I knew and loved who didn't…

— Sanela Ramic Jurich

Jack [Kirby] and Joe [Simon] wrote and drew the stories themselves in the beginning and I was just, like, the office boy. But after…

— Stan Lee

“(Jack London)“He was an adventurer and a man of action as few writers have ever been . . . the excellence of his short…

— George Orwell

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak…

— Francis Ford Coppola

“The power of a writer... Jack's Theory. You may say what you will about me, though in a little while no one will remember…

— Jack Kingsman