Jim Harrison Quotations | Page 2

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.

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.

Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.