Jim Harrison quotes - page 2

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read. (Jim Harrison)
Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself. View quote
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Success and money can really be quite blinding. View quote
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I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there. View quote
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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. View quote
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I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems. View quote
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I like grit. I like love and death. I'm tired of irony. View quote
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I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence. (Jim Harrison)
Short things are short all over and long things are long all over. View quote
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I do have trouble with titles. View quote
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Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit. View quote
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Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints. View quote
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I rarely read or buy a book because of a review. View quote
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Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works. View quote
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I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that. View quote
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I used to get criticized for putting food in novels. View quote
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I can write anywhere. View quote
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I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was. (Jim Harrison)
Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too. View quote
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Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger. View quote
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Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. (from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker) View quote
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A poet must discover that it's his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed. View quote
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