Writers

Let there be joy in baseball again, like in the days when Babe Ruth
chased an enemy sportswriter down the streets of Boston and ended up
getting drunk with him on the waterfront and came back the next day
munching on hotdogs and boomed homeruns to the glory of God. - Jack
Kerouac

Writers are, in a way, very powerful indeed. They write the script for
the reality film. Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a
million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages.
Now if writers could get together into a real tight union, we'd have the
world right by the words. We could write our own universes, and they
would all be as real as a coffee bar or a pair of Levis or a prom in the
Jazz Age. Writers could take over the reality studio. So they must not
be allowed to find out that they can make it happen. Kerouac understood
this long before I did. Life is a dream, he said. - Alan Ginsberg