Jack Kerouac Quote

If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.

The Portable Jack Kerouac (ed. Viking Adult, 1995)

If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable...

If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable...

If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable...

If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable...