Quote

And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born.

Jack Kerouac

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jack Kerouac
Age: 47 †
Born: 1922
Born: March 13
Died: 1969
Died: October 21
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
Kerouac
Jean-Louis Kerouac
Wonder
Psychotic
Written
Wonders
Happiness
Madness
Born
Sorrow
Fear
Ignorance
Kind
Gets
Way
Novel
Joy
Incubator

More quotes by Jack Kerouac

Image
To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.
Jack Kerouac
Image
Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad in America.
Jack Kerouac
Image
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
Jack Kerouac
Image
Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.
Jack Kerouac
Image
It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.
Jack Kerouac
Image
When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
Jack Kerouac
Image
And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!
Jack Kerouac
Image
I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.
Jack Kerouac
Image
Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.
Jack Kerouac
Image
We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.
Jack Kerouac
Image
Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH.
Jack Kerouac
Image
And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.
Jack Kerouac
Image
My shoes are clean from walking in the rain.
Jack Kerouac
Image
Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?
Jack Kerouac
Image
Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just talents.
Jack Kerouac
Image
But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?
Jack Kerouac
Image
I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.
Jack Kerouac
Image
Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long as I live I'll have chains dragging me down to the oceans of sad tears that my feet are wet in already.
Jack Kerouac
Image
Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'... But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.' There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!
Jack Kerouac
Image
What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I'm a man sitting under the stars on the terrace of the earth, but actually empty and awake throughout the emptiness and awakedness of everything? It means that I'm empty and awake, that I know I'm empty and awake, and that there's no difference between me and anything else.
Jack Kerouac