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Jim Harrison
American Writer
Born: Dec 11, 1937
Died: Mar 26, 2016
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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
Great Crazy People Some People Become Legend Own Live Some Voices Clearness Hear Inner
You can't be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river. Jim Harrison
Beautiful You Unhappy Big River Middle
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 funeral-parlor waiting room. Jim Harrison
Good Food You Waiting People Pet Laughter Restaurant Fine Inside Chatter Like Joyful Go Sitting Biggest Room Should Good Food
You can be in terrible shape, and if you take a three-hour walk through the forest and along the river, you're simply not the same as when you started out. Jim Harrison
You Walk Out Through Shape Take River Simply Along Terrible Forest Same Started
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. Jim Harrison
Food Memories Wine Trapped Baby Our Bite Ate Drink Divine Bottle Hotel Come Goose Bowl Stew Without Goat Sip Bumps Revisiting Where Conjunction Large Switzerland
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 You Wine Advice Unless Willing Give Only Writers Red Red Wine Also Your Aspiring Whole Helps Garlic
Either you can do what others want, or you can do what you want to do. That's an easy call. Jim Harrison
You Others Easy Call Want Either
We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive. Jim Harrison
Alive Poetry Write Supposed Gods Keep
I've always been intemperate in my affection for food. Jim Harrison
Food Affection Always Been
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. Jim Harrison
Time You Thought Energy Several About Write Feel Know Ready Go Juice Years Lot Density Get Just Created Fling Novel Start By The Time
Between the two dream coasts, we're just called flyover country... If you aren't known as an amorphous Eastern Seaboard writer, you're dismissed as a regional author. Jim Harrison
You Country Dream Eastern Writer Between Known Author Just Regional Dismissed Two
I don't want to go around like some kind of bleeding giant or whatever, or thinking I'm a big deal, because it doesn't help you do your work. I think people like Hemingway got into an awful lot of trouble that way. Jim Harrison
Work You People Trouble Big Whatever Think Thinking Way Giant Kind Some Bleeding Like Because Around Deal Got Big Deal Go Lot Want Your Help Hemingway Awful Awful Lot
I think about the sentence a long time, and then I write it. I don't revise it once it's set down. Jim Harrison
Time Long Long Time Down Think Once About Write Revise Sentence Then Set
You have to temporarily be the character in order to understand him. It's sort of what they used to call 'shape-shifting.' Jim Harrison
Character You Temporarily Call Him Sort Understand Order Used
I don't think it matters how fast you write. It's how long you thought about it. I like to think of it as a well filling up. I think about it until the well is full, and then I let go. Jim Harrison
You Thought Long Matters Think About Write Like Until Well How Go Up Then Full Let Go Filling Fast
I rarely read or buy a book because of a review. Jim Harrison
Buy Book Rarely Read Because Review
Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast. Jim Harrison
Good Drama Makes South Contrast North Michigan Different Which Places Different Places Radically Good Drama Two
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
Work Good Trust Good Work Believe Say Give Write Any Anybody Anything Them Should Why Credibility
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. Jim Harrison
Life You Dark Guess Montana Say Dream Dream Life Outdoors Over Know Sure Been Lot Get Gets Stopped Where Them Ask Reasonably Who Fun They Say Start Pulled
Food is a great literary theme. Food in eternity, food and sex, food and lust. Food is a part of the whole of life. Food is not separate. Jim Harrison
Life Food Great Sex Lust Part Literary Eternity Theme Separate Whole
Other than fishing and a little bird-hunting, all I do is write. Jim Harrison
Other Write Fishing Than Little
There's something frightening about finding a woman who would take your heart. Jim Harrison
Woman Heart Would Finding About Something Take Frightening Your Who
I became aesthetically obsessed with language. And 'literary artist' - poet and novelist - is a calling. You are called to it the way preachers are called to preaching the gospel. Jim Harrison
You Language Poet Preaching Way Obsessed Calling Became Gospel Aesthetically Preachers Artist Literary Novelist
Nothing in the world causes more problems than concepts of ethnic virtue. It's irrelevant. Jim Harrison
World Problems Nothing Virtue More Concepts Causes Than Irrelevant Ethnic
New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed. Jim Harrison
You Case New Mostly York New York New Yorkers Interested Noticed
I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist. Jim Harrison
Good Journalist Enough Rational
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