On the Road

“The end of On The Road by Kerouac: "Forlorn rags of growing... ...old." I just remember closing that and thinking, "What the fuck am I doing in this big... ...world?"”

“Until then, you guys should go read "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac. - [Andrew] Yeah, read off- - You should read it. (Andrew laughing) I don't know if you read it before. - If you can't get my book, get "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac.”

“Yeah, "On the Road" - Yeah. - by Jack Kerouac. - Best book I've ever read (Lex chuckles) in my life.”

“I'm currently reading on the road by Jack Kerouac and uh would be remiss if I didn't mention one of my favorite quotes from that book that feels relevant here”

“and then he actually realizes in uh spoiler alert for on the road that they're actually heading the same way”

“but i will also talk to the people who jack kerouac called the mad ones in his book on the road that is one of my favorite books he wrote”

“like even people talk about kowak and kowak was like you know he rode on the road he on the road and it was Hunter S Thompson type of thing”

“you could read on the road in a week”

“Well they said when Jack Kerouac rode on the road they were a lot of Benzedrine or like this”

“Ultimately, I wrote a book about my hitchhiking experience years later. And everyone was like, have you read "On the Road"?”

“Ultimately, I wrote a book about my hitchhiking experience years later. And everyone was like, have you read 'On the Road'? And then, 'On the Road', I probably heard the title of that book every day at least 10 times for two years.”

“one of my earliest literary simulations was to reenact jack kerouac tripping on the road when i was 17 culminating and getting very wasted in the hanging gardens of zochimilco”

“I actually reenacted Jack Kerouac's On the Road with considerable fidelity to the original.”

“"On the Road" was apparently written in two weeks on amphetamines.”

“well I I've been working on a project on America for a number of years and I wanted to first of all I wanted to do a book that was going to be in time for the the 50th the anniversary of On the Road, the Jack Carowak book, I thought if I did a book on America now, um”

“This book changed my life and and changed my life to the extent that a it sent me out there into the world myself, hitchhiking, traveling, trying to find a different place.”

“and he met Jack herak through other people she knew and so she essentially became an on and off again romantic partner of Jack herak right around the time that on the road was published”

“so I think the book that started for me was on the road I mean cirak you know it's a novel but it's based on a lot of his own trips”

“I didn't you know I think when books really excited me at a younger age it was often American novels I mean on the road I remember just sort of blitzing my brain when I read that”

“Jack Kerouac lived on the road for 7 years. He wrote On the Road in 3 weeks. Fact.”

“Jack Kerouac lived on the road for um 7 years and he wrote On the Road in 3 weeks.”

“you could read on the road in a week”

“realizes that neil cassidy who's blackout drunk who is dean moriarty and on the road by jack herreck”

“I read Jack Kerouac on the road”

“he had Jack kowak on the road uh sitting on his uh night table open”

“I was reading, you know, Sam Shepard. I was reading, you know, on the road. I was reading, you know, all these great writers and just opening up my imagination.”

“Whether it's obviously Jack Kerouac's On the Road is a big one, or Tom Robbins even Cowgirls Get the Blues. The Gus Van Sant movie, the main character was born with an abnormally large thumb, so she obviously had a talent as a hitchhiker, and that's kind of one of the subplots of the book and film, right?”

“Yeah and if you were into jazz at the time you were probably somewhat familiar of bop talk but um it filtered into the beats um who kind of introduced it to an even wider audience in the United States like it pops up here there and on the road from Jack Kerouac sure.”

“So what was, so you grew up out there and everybody's [__] punching cattle and drilling oil and flattening the mountains and you're doing what, reading Jack Kerouac?”

“But that was like stuff you're saying here, like I read On the Road when I was 17 and I was like, I gotta leave where I'm at! But that wasn’t stuff I did in high school; that was stuff I did on my own.”

“This one focused on the great road trip books since Jack Carowaks On the Road.”

“it's it's another myth like the tortured artist the it's a myth like the you know caroak sat down and wrote on the road in 24 hours on a bender and it's like no almost everything that is impressive yeah was methodically and gradually built yeah and painstakingly”

“I felt like I was you know it was the only thing left from those Jack caroak books how you would go to a town”

“kerouac any of this stuff i have on the road i read and i read a biography of him”

“I actually reenacted Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road' with considerable fidelity to the original.”

“you remember the Truman Capote quote about on the road Jack Kerouac Capote said that's not writing that's typing”