1,027 Quotes by Jack Kerouac

Accept loss forever.

The Catholic Church is a weird church. Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries till it extends into the very lives of its constituents and parishoners.

I really hate to write.

My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.

It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.

Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with 'On the Road' and 'The Dharma Bums', I had no power to stand by my style for better or for worse.

Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.

I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.