All Jim Harrison Quotes
- The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering. Distraction
- Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be. Depending
- This infantile sense of order tended to infect my life at large. Up at 5:30 a.m., coffee, oatmeal, perhaps sausage (homemade), and fresh eggs giving… Absence
- Perhaps when we die our names are takenfrom us by a divine magnet and are freeto flutter here and there within the bodies of birds.I'll… Antelope
- In a life properly lived, you’re a river, Funny
- You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it. Along
- I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist. Good
- The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion. Explosion
- Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger. Inevitably
- I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there. Ernest
- New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed. Case
- I can write anywhere. Anywhere
- I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems. Book
- I rarely read or buy a book because of a review. Book
- I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago. Add
- I used to get criticized for putting food in novels. Criticism
- I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose. Inspirational
- We Are All One. When we allow ourselves to become aware of this statement in its purest form, we open the doors to reveal the… All
- Short things are short all over and long things are long all over. All
- I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain. Chain
- Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints. Attempted
- I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass. All
- Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend. Become Crazy
- 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 wine… Advice
- Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit. Car