Quotes By Jim Harrison

Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.

I can write anywhere.

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.

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

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.

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.

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