Jack Kerouac Quotes

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Jack Kerouac

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 12, 1922 - October 21, 1969

Topics

FaultPeculiarHangSomethingFound

Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.

Joanne Harris

ChildrenFocusYourselfWorldThink

For a couple of years at the end of the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman was a fixture in our family. My father was his lawyer and friend.

John Burnham Schwartz

FamilyFriendFatherLawyerEndOur

I don't consider myself a mean person. I hope I'm not.

Stanley Tucci

HopeMyselfPersonMeanConsider

The only plan is trying to push myself the maximum to be the best player I can.

Stan Wawrinka

MyselfBestPushPlanTryingI Can

When it's a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you're riffing off other people's ideas, that actually can be productive.

Steven Johnson

PeopleIdeasYouMeetingSharing

I always want to write something better than the last book.

Tracy Kidder

BookBetterWantWriteAlwaysLast

After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults.

Rodman Philbrick

New YorkMeMysteryNewYoungWrite

I decided to write about the myths of divorce.

Mary Garden

DivorceWriteMythsAboutDecided

My wife came here at age 8 not speaking a word of English and ended up in the president's Cabinet.

Mitch McConnell

AgeWifePresidentUpHereEnglish

The real scares on CNN, etc. and the scares in a movie, like 'The Purge,' are totally different. One of the ways you can tell when someone, whether it's a film maker or executive or producer, wants to make a scary movie but doesn't understand that distinction is they'll want to recreate too much of what's on TV.

Jason Blum

SomeoneYouToo MuchWantUnderstand

Like many of us in Arizona, I wasn't born here - I'm a product of the Midwest and the working class.

Doug Ducey

BornProductClassHereUsWorking

Success is the freedom to do what you want, with whom you want, when you want, wherever you want.

Conan Stevens

SuccessFreedomYouWantWherever

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