Jim Harrison Quotes - Page 4

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

Nothing on my trip thus far was as I expected which shows you that rather than simply read about the United States you have to log the journey.

Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.

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.

I do have trouble with titles.

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.

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.

Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

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.

That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.