Quotes By Jim Harrison
Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.
Jim Harrison
Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.
Jim Harrison
After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.
Jim Harrison
Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
Jim Harrison
The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.
Jim Harrison
I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.
Jim Harrison
There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.
Jim Harrison
The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.
Jim Harrison
I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.
Jim Harrison
Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.
Jim Harrison
I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.
Jim Harrison
I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
Jim Harrison
I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.
Jim Harrison
Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.
Jim Harrison
I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
Jim Harrison
I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
Jim Harrison