Books Quote by Jim Harrison Download Open image ““I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.”” — Jim Harrison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Education Literature Love Ruins Teaching
“Ahhh, teaching literature. A noble calling! For we are all stories.” — Carolyn Weber Copy Share Image
“I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The way I saw it, if my students were willing to pretend I was a teacher, the least I could do was return the… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education.” — Pat Frank Copy Share Image
“The class went all right, and the ones after became easier. I was enthusiastic, naive and idealistic, and I was in love with my… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be different.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was the teaching itself that I loved. At least, I loved it back when I thought it would be enough to change things.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I thought it was amazing that I could get a diploma just for reading fiction. It was like being able to major in eating… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong… — William Zinsser 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
