Jim Harrison Quotes
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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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What moves me most is style: the quality of the writing rather than the story being told.
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I'm a time person. It's the one discipline I manage.
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I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
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I wasn't taking myself seriously as a novelist, and then it became my day job.
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Unlike a lot of writers, I don't have any craving to be understood.
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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.
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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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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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I can't stand the short story form, which, after all, is a magazine form.
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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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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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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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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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Other than fishing and a little bird-hunting, all I do is write.
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I like grit. I like love and death. I'm tired of irony.
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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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Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
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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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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.
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How is it macho that I like to hunt and fish? I've been doing it since I was four.
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I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
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We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.