Jim Harrison Quotes
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Food is a great literary theme. Food in eternity, food and sex, food and lust. Food is a part of the whole of life. Food is not separate.
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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 should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.
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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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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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I couldn't read a screenplay without puking.
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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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Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.
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Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
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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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Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 do have trouble with titles.
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Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.
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Nothing in the world causes more problems than concepts of ethnic virtue. It's irrelevant.
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The reviews are getting better, but they always do, in time, if you're still alive.