Writer Quotes by Jim Harrison

“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

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

— Jim Harrison

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

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

“(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

“. . . another year has passed, or so they say, but calenders lie. They're a kind of cosmic business machine like their cousin…

— Jim Harrison

“The head's a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don't travel at all.”

— 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 that we…

— Jim Harrison

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

I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.

— Jim Harrison

It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.

— Jim Harrison

“I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.”

— Jim Harrison

“I seek the substantial in life.”

— Jim Harrison

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

— Jim Harrison

“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