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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.
Jim Harrison -
The reviews are getting better, but they always do, in time, if you're still alive.
Jim Harrison
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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.
Jim Harrison -
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!
Jim Harrison -
I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
Jim Harrison -
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.
Jim Harrison -
I had a concussion I didn't get over for three years. I think that's why I'm goofy.
Jim Harrison -
You have to temporarily be the character in order to understand him. It's sort of what they used to call 'shape-shifting.'
Jim Harrison
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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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I've always been intemperate in my affection for food.
Jim Harrison -
I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.
Jim Harrison -
Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
Jim Harrison -
Other than fishing and a little bird-hunting, all I do is write.
Jim Harrison -
I do have trouble with titles.
Jim Harrison
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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.
Jim Harrison -
I wasn't taking myself seriously as a novelist, and then it became my day job.
Jim Harrison -
We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.
Jim Harrison -
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.
Jim Harrison -
I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
Jim Harrison -
I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
Jim Harrison
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I like grit. I like love and death. I'm tired of irony.
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How is it macho that I like to hunt and fish? I've been doing it since I was four.
Jim Harrison -
Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
Jim Harrison -
I can write anywhere.
Jim Harrison