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
I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.
Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. (from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)
I can write anywhere.
We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.
I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.
I have closely noted that people who watch a great deal of TV never again seem able to adjust to the actual pace of life. The speed of the passing images becomes the speed the aspire to and they seem to develop an impatience and boredom with anything else.
Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.
I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.
What cannot be said, will get wept.