“ I work every morning, all morning, sometimes in the afternoons. Then sometimes I hunt in the afternoons - quail, doves, grouse up north - but just to stay alive, because writers die from their lifesty… Jim Harrison
“ Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak. Jim Harrison
“ 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. 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 pep… Jim Harrison
“ Trying to teach creativity is the major hoax of our time along with the Iraq war and plastic surgery" ~ Snarky comment of Clive from "The River Swimmer" (pg 47) Jim Harrison
“ She wasn't trying to overcome life, only to get along with it, to blend with the processes she could scarcely understand in a world that had permitted her no solid ground. Jim Harrison
“ Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot... I've seen all these marriages that failed. Those people are always hollering at e… Jim Harrison
“ Age focuses you. You are much better concentrated. There's more time when you travel less, don't do book tours, avoid interviews or public appearances. You walk the dogs, fish, hunt, cook and write. Jim Harrison
“ 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… Jim Harrison
“ Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend. Jim Harrison
“ My biggest pet peeve is when you go to a fine restaurant, and it's like a mausoleum inside. Good food should be joyful. There should be laughter and chatter, not people sitting there like they're in a… 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
“ You do manage a somewhat religious attitude toward your art. It is a calling rather than a job. Jim Harrison
“ Sometimes, I tell my wife I have to take a car trip and collect new memories - I like to drive around at absolute random for weeks on end through the United States and parts of Canada. Or else I feel… Jim Harrison
“ I don't trust anybody that doesn't do good work. I don't give them any credibility. If they can't write, why should I believe anything they have to say? Jim Harrison
“ Never before have the American people had their noses so deeply in one another's business. If I announce that I and eleven other diners shared a thirty-seven-course lunch that likely cost as much as a… Jim Harrison
