Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison
James "Jim" Harrisonwas an American author known for his poetry, fiction, reviews, essays about the outdoors, and writings about food. He is best known for his 1979 novella Legends of the Fall. He has been called "a force of nature", and his work has been compared to that of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. Harrison's characters tend to be rural by birth and to have retained some qualities of their agrarian pioneer heritage in spite of their intelligence and some...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 December 1937
CountryUnited States of America
Its location is appealing. (The school) is midway between Medina and many communities that don't have the services they do there. There is a need for some similar facilities out here.
Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.
I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.
Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain.
A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.
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.
Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.
Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.
My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
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.