Jim Harrison Quotes - Page 4

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• Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls.

  Jim Harrison

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Jim Harrison (2016). “Just Before Dark”, p.35, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Nothing on my trip thus far was as I expected which shows you that rather than simply read about the United States you have to log the journey.

  Jim Harrison

  Journey, United States, Shows

  Jim Harrison (2009). “The English Major: A Novel”, p.179, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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

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

  Jim Harrison

  Drama, Two, Different

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

  Jim Harrison

  Writing, Literature, Prose

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

  Jim Harrison

  Race, Michigan, Genuine

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

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• 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.

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• 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

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• I do have trouble with titles.

  Jim Harrison

  Titles, Trouble

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

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• 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.

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• I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.

  Jim Harrison

  Teaching, Brain, Brain Tumor

  Jim Harrison (2009). “The English Major: A Novel”, p.76, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

  Jim Harrison

  Sex, Writing, Ethnicity

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

  Jim Harrison

  Writing, Would Be, Literature

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

  Jim Harrison

  Literature, Enough, Rational

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

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• 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.

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• So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.

  Jim Harrison

  Ideas, Made, Situation

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• 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.

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

  Jim Harrison

  Book, Poetry, Magazines

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• Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.

  Jim Harrison

  Gun, Car, Detroit

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

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• I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

  Jim Harrison

  Criticism, Used, Novel

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

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• That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.

  Jim Harrison

  Funny, Beautiful, Old Buildings

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