It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close… — 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 was on the verge of jumping into one of those holes in life out of which we emerge a bit tattered… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
I have closely noted that people who watch a great deal of TV never again seem able to adjust to the actual… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“His own life suddenly seemed repellently formal. Whom did he know or what did he know and whom did he love? Sitting… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
This infantile sense of order tended to infect my life at large. Up at 5:30 a.m., coffee, oatmeal, perhaps sausage (homemade), and… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“I did not want to live out my life in the strennous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“From a distance the head is a bowling ball on the shoulders, but not so: a carapace and inside, the contents are… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“It's very difficult to look at the World and into your heart at the same time. In between, a life has passed.” — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls... — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“A movement in the vines startled her and an opossum scurried out, looked at Clare and flopped over in fake death. She… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“Goddamn but her mind was so exhausted with trying to hold the world together, tired of being the living glue for herself,… — 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 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
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 Image
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 Image
“(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 Image
“. . . 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 Image
“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 Image
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 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 it. Red… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
