Jim Harrison

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.

— Jim Harrison

The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.

— Jim Harrison

All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.

— Jim Harrison

My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.

— Jim Harrison

No one else can hold your hand or take this voyage of the soul for you.

— Jim Harrison

Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.

— Jim Harrison

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North

— Jim Harrison

Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls...

— Jim Harrison

Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.

— Jim Harrison

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

— Jim Harrison

When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose…

— Jim Harrison

That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.

— 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…

— Jim Harrison

“Birthdays are [soul chasers,] ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask [the usual question[, “Qué pasa, baby?” (The Raw and…

— Jim Harrison

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

— Jim Harrison

You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it.

— Jim Harrison

“Perhaps when we die our names are taken from us by a divine magnet and are free to flutter here and there…

— Jim Harrison

I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and…

— Jim Harrison

“A movement in the vines startled her and an opossum scurried out, looked at Clare and flopped over in fake death. She…

— Jim Harrison

Perhaps when we die our names are takenfrom us by a divine magnet and are freeto flutter here and there within the…

— Jim Harrison

One of the curious effects of a bad hangover is that you think you're wrong whether you are or not. Not wrong…

— Jim Harrison

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was…

— Jim Harrison

“(from: Age Sixty-nine) Often, lately, the night is a cold maw and stars the scattered white teeth of the gods, which spare…

— Jim Harrison

“If you added it up, without her there was nothing--but with her even the simplest of gestures of walking a bird dog…

— Jim Harrison

We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.

— Jim Harrison

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

— Jim Harrison

“One thing that has gone wrong in America is the general acceptance of bad ham”

— Jim Harrison

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

— Jim Harrison

I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.

— Jim Harrison

I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.

— 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

“When you leave, you can leave a lot behind. Simple as that. And when you return the bad stuff has all disappeared…

— Jim Harrison

Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.

— Jim Harrison

I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.

— Jim Harrison

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have…

— Jim Harrison

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

— Jim Harrison

Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.

— Jim Harrison

“My heart must open to the cosmos with no langauage unless we invent it moment by moment in order to breathe.”

— Jim Harrison

“A black hole the size of 300 billion stars is gobbling up the M87 galaxy because astronomers gave it a boring name.”

— Jim Harrison

Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.

— Jim Harrison