“I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day and the sentence had no FEELING. Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.”
~ Jack Kerouac
The Beat Generation ~ Jack Kerouac
“The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way.”
~ Jack Kerouac
If You Tell A True Story, You Can’t Be Wrong. ~ Jack Kerouac
Mad Ones ~ Jack Kerouac
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.”
~ Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac Quote: Life
“Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.”
~ Jack Kerouac
Bored Solitude ~ Jack Kerouac
“No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength”
– Jack Kerouac
Life Worth Living
“Put down the pen someone else gave you.
No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.”
– Jack Kerouac
