Jim Harrison Quotes
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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.
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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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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'm a time person. It's the one discipline I manage.
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I can write anywhere.
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I think the trouble with artists or chefs who whine about criticism is that if you love the good reviews, you have to at least read the bad ones.
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What moves me most is style: the quality of the writing rather than the story being told.
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I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
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Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.
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Riesling? It smells like an intensive care ward.
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Sometimes, discomfort is very uncomfortable. Anybody can get occasionally tired of it, and then it can change fast, where it's comfort that disturbs you.
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Other than fishing and a little bird-hunting, all I do is write.
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I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
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Unlike a lot of writers, I don't have any craving to be understood.
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We are delightfully trapped by our memories. I can't drink a bottle of Chateauneuf-du-Pape Vieux Telegraphe without revisiting a hotel bistro in Luzerne, Switzerland, where I ate a large bowl of a peppery Basque baby goat stew. A sip and a bite. A bite and sip. Goose bumps come with the divine conjunction of food and wine.
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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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The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling.
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There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.
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I can't stand the short story form, which, after all, is a magazine form.
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I like grit. I like love and death. I'm tired of irony.
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I used to have this illusion that time and remote areas prepare you for the world. Our moms used to think that kind of thing. Well, it doesn't prepare you for the world at all!
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Either you can do what others want, or you can do what you want to do. That's an easy call.
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Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
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I'm outdoors a lot, so I get dark. Guess who gets stopped? I've been pulled over, and they ask, 'Where are you from?' I say, 'Montana.' They say, 'Are you sure? And I say, 'I'm reasonably sure I'm from Montana, but you know, this is a dream life.' You start on this shtick with them and it's fun.