Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Muses on Fire : On Literature and the People That Inspire It
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

AbstractHistoryArchive Description

''The only people for me,' Jack Kerouac wrote in his autobiographical novel On the Road, 'are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles...' I read this, now legendary, sentence some years ago and was struck by how precisely Kerouac summed up my own writerly obsessions.' (Publication abstract)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Kill Your Darlings no. 18 July 2014 8162477 2014 periodical issue 2014 pg. 78-92
Last amended 17 May 2016 14:48:17
78-92 Muses on Fire : On Literature and the People That Inspire Itsmall AustLit logo Kill Your Darlings
X