Accounts Quote by William S. Burroughs

“I realized Jack [Kerouac] was deeply committed to writing. Kesey was just as deeply committed to living and experiencing the lives of others; for…

— Sterling Lord

“I just love crazy people like this,' Murphy said. 'Jack Kerouac people. Mad to live, mad to die, that kind of thing.”

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

Growing up in San Antonio, I was the dork at the Friday night football games with my head buried in a book - Jack…

— Amy Chozick

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