Authors — Quotes

Jack London Quotes: 7

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.
The Call of the Wild
I would rather be ashes than dust!I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.The function of man is to live, not to exist.I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.I shall use my time.
Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.
In the height of the gusts, in my high position, where the seas did not break, I found myself compelled to cling tightly to the rail to escape being blown away. My face was stung to severe pain by the high-driving spindrift, and I had a feeling that the wind was blowing the cobwebs out of my sleep-starved brain.
The Mutiny of the Elsinore
He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.