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Your subconscious mind is trying to help you all the time. That's why I keep a journal - not for chatter but for mostly the images that flow into the mind or little ideas. I keep a running journal, and I have all of my life, so it's like your gold mine when you start writing.
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You do manage a somewhat religious attitude toward your art. It is a calling rather than a job.
Jim Harrison
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Unlike a lot of writers, I don't have any craving to be understood.
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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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Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.
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Success and money can really be quite blinding.
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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.
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I grew up in an agricultural family, and I never distanced myself from where the food comes from. I think it's quite natural.
Jim Harrison
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There's something frightening about finding a woman who would take your heart.
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The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.
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The big curse of America, to me, is skinless, boneless chicken breasts. They're banal and relatively flavorless. The rest of the world's trying to get some fat to eat, and we're trying to ban it from our diet.
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Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
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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.
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What moves me most is style: the quality of the writing rather than the story being told.
Jim Harrison
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If all I did was pretend I was Wilderness Jimmy, I would go stale. You know, I fish maybe 100 days of the year and bird-hunt, but if I didn't go to Paris once or twice a year, I'd be crazy.
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I can't stand the short story form, which, after all, is a magazine form.
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If all I did was answer the correspondence I get, that would be my job.
Jim Harrison -
Riesling? It smells like an intensive care ward.
Jim Harrison -
Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.
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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?
Jim Harrison
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I'm a time person. It's the one discipline I manage.
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I don't feel tentative when I start to write. I've usually thought about a novel or novella for several years and created a lot of juice and density and energy by that time so by the time I get ready to go, I just let 'er fling, you know.
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I think about the sentence a long time, and then I write it. I don't revise it once it's set down.
Jim Harrison -
I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
Jim Harrison