Jim Harrison Quotes

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.
Jim Harrison

Great, Crazy, Live

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 and garlic also helps.
Jim Harrison

Life, Give, Advice

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

Human, Fact, Existence

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
Jim Harrison

Movies, Care, Enjoy

I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
Jim Harrison

Best, Place, Write

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
Jim Harrison

Good, Enough, Rational

So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.
Jim Harrison

Family, Money, Made

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

Kids, Move, Younger

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 do.
Jim Harrison

Travel, Reality, After

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
Jim Harrison

Works, Writers, Publishing

Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.
Jim Harrison

Car, Gun, Everybody

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.
Jim Harrison

Why, Said, Both

I can write anywhere.
Jim Harrison

Write, Anywhere

I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.
Jim Harrison

Time, Good, Yourself

I do have trouble with titles.
Jim Harrison

Trouble, Titles

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.
Jim Harrison

Person, Same, Seeing

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
Jim Harrison

Book, Nation, Magazine

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
Jim Harrison

Book, Read, Rarely

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
Jim Harrison

Between, Question, Genuine

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

Enjoy, York, Paris

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
Jim Harrison

Thought, Write, Pleasant

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.
Jim Harrison

Food, Used, Criticized

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
Jim Harrison

Write, Prose, Loose

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.
Jim Harrison

Though, Felt, Inevitable

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

Good, Different, Two

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 11, 1937

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