Jim Harrison Quotes
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Age focuses you. You are much better concentrated. There's more time when you travel less, don't do book tours, avoid interviews or public appearances. You walk the dogs, fish, hunt, cook and write.
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I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
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I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.
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Between the two dream coasts, we're just called flyover country... If you aren't known as an amorphous Eastern Seaboard writer, you're dismissed as a regional author.
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I couldn't read a screenplay without puking.
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As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father. I think I was only 8 when I read Edward Gibbon's 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'
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The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.
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Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.
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I've never been a true fan of the short story and have only published a single example of my own.
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Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
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You do manage a somewhat religious attitude toward your art. It is a calling rather than a job.
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You can be in terrible shape, and if you take a three-hour walk through the forest and along the river, you're simply not the same as when you started out.
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I don't trust anybody that doesn't do good work. I don't give them any credibility. If they can't write, why should I believe anything they have to say?
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Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot... I've seen all these marriages that failed. Those people are always hollering at each other. That doesn't work.
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I don't think it matters how fast you write. It's how long you thought about it. I like to think of it as a well filling up. I think about it until the well is full, and then I let go.
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I don't want to go around like some kind of bleeding giant or whatever, or thinking I'm a big deal, because it doesn't help you do your work. I think people like Hemingway got into an awful lot of trouble that way.
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I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
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Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.
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My favorite thing is just walking in the woods. I can do it for days on end without tiring of it.
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Sometimes, I tell my wife I have to take a car trip and collect new memories - I like to drive around at absolute random for weeks on end through the United States and parts of Canada. Or else I feel trapped, like you feel when your life is completely planned for months in advance, and you think you're not getting enough oxygen.
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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.
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The reviews are getting better, but they always do, in time, if you're still alive.
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Given free rein, our imagination can get infinite.
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Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.