Jack London Quotes


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.


Citations

London, Jack. The Call of the Wild. Macmillan, 1903, p. 91.

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Jack London
Jack London
  • Born: January 12, 1876
  • Died: November 22, 1916
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist, Journalist, Short Story Writer Essayist

John Griffith London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.