Jim Harrison Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.

  Jim Harrison

  Crazy, Fall, Voice

  "Fictional character: One Stab". "Legends of the Fall", www.imdb.com. December 23, 1994.

• 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

  Wine, Giving, Advice

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

  Jim Harrison

  Literature, Facts, Gender

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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

  Jim Harrison

  Literature, Inevitable, Felt

• I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.

  Jim Harrison

  Couple, Book, Writing

• Success and money can really be quite blinding.

  Jim Harrison

  Congratulations, Literature, Success And Money

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

  Jim Harrison

  Sex, Writing, Ethnicity

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

  Jim Harrison

  Literature, Publishing, Concepts

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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

  Jim Harrison

  Writing, Would Be, Literature

• 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.

  Jim Harrison

  Literature, France, Harvard

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org.

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

  Jim Harrison

  Drama, Two, Different

• Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.

  Jim Harrison

  Long, Literature, Form

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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

  Jim Harrison

  Literature, Yeah, University

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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

  Jim Harrison

  Literature, Enough, Rational

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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

  Jim Harrison

  Writing, Literature, Problem

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

  Jim Harrison

  New York, Literature, Cases

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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

  Jim Harrison

  Years, Doe, Literature

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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

  Jim Harrison

  Book, Poetry, Magazines

• 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

  Fun, War, Literature

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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

  Jim Harrison

  Book, Literature, Reviews

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

• I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.

  Jim Harrison

  Teaching, Literature, Ruins

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

  Jim Harrison

  New York, Cities, Paris

• 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

  Running, Teaching, Writing

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

  Jim Harrison

  Writing, Literature, Prose

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