Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“I wish Barry Lopez would write novels. from "Conversations with Jim Harrison” — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
I wonder, when a writer's blocked and doesn't have any resources to pull himself out of it, why doesn't he jump in… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
As an English major I was familiar with the stories of dozens of writers trying to get their work done among the… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“Perhaps swimming was dancing in the water, he thought. To swim under lily pads seeing their green slender stalks wavering as you passed, to… — Jim Harrison Copy Share
Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints. — Jim Harrison Copy Share
I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who… — Jim Harrison Copy Share
It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close if you… — Jim Harrison Copy Share
“(from: Age Sixty-nine) There is this circle I walk that I have learned to love. I hope one day to be a spiral but… — Jim Harrison Copy Share
“. . . another year has passed, or so they say, but calenders lie. They're a kind of cosmic business machine like their cousin… — Jim Harrison Copy Share
“The head's a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don't travel at all.” — Jim Harrison Copy Share
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… — Jim Harrison Copy Share
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… — Jim Harrison Copy Share
It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs. — Jim Harrison Copy Share
“Birthdays are [soul chasers,] ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask [the usual question], “Qué pasa, baby?” — Jim Harrison Copy Share
“Never before have the American people had their noses so deeply in one another's business. If I announce that I and eleven other diners… — Jim Harrison Copy Share
