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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 people

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.

— Jim Harrison life

Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.

— Jim Harrison art

Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.

— Jim Harrison body

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

— Jim Harrison influence

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

— Jim Harrison man

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

— Jim Harrison person

I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.

— Jim Harrison joy

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

— Jim Harrison you

We are all naturally xenophobic.

— Jim Harrison

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.

— Jim Harrison time

The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.

— Jim Harrison body

The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling.

— Jim Harrison knowledge

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

— Jim Harrison you

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

— Jim Harrison money

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

— Jim Harrison race

Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.

— Jim Harrison you

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

— Jim Harrison sex

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 life

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

— Jim Harrison good

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

— Jim Harrison poem

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

— Jim Harrison book

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

— Jim Harrison novel

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.

— Jim Harrison media

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

— Jim Harrison time

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