Jack London - biography

“I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.  I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.”

“The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.”

“If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.”

“A bone to the dog is not charity.  Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”

“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise.  And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.”

“One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.”

“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.  I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.  I shall use my time.”

“Affluence means influence.”

“Darn the wheel of the world!  Why must it continually turn over?  Where is the reverse gear?”

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”

“San Francisco is gone.  Nothing remains of it but memories.”

“You can’t wait for inspiration.  You have to go after it with a club.”

Jack London contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
For Love of Gold (1908)
The Call of the Wild (1908)
Two Men of the Desert (1913)
Construire un feu (1929)
The Call of the Wild (1935)
Conflict (1936)
Romance of the Redwoods (1939)
The Sea Wolf (1941)
North to the Klondike (1942)
The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942)
Barricade (1950)
The Assassination Bureau (1969)
The Call of the Wild (1972)
Emperor of the North Pole (1973)
Il richiamo del lupo (1975)
Klondike Fever (1980)
White Fang (1991)