23 Quotes by Jack Kerouac about Writing
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
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A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved.
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Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears...
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Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except that you've got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
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Did I come into this world thru the womb of my mother the earth just so I could talk and write like everybody else?
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Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything
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It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.
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