Quotes By Jim Harrison

Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.

We are all naturally xenophobic.

I do have trouble with titles.

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

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.