Jack kerouac rules for writers

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Try never get drunk outside yr own house.Submissive to everything, open, listening.Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy.I think, for a change, it has a few worthwhile items on it. The following is a list the Beat author Jack Kerouac (supposedly) wrote and tacked to the wall of Allen Ginsberg’s hotel room in 1954, a year before Ginsburg’s most famous poem, “Howl,” was published. Sometimes they recopy the advice of great writers. There is a website called, which posts all kinds of interesting things: book recommendations, repostings, quotations.

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