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 had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.
Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits.
Success and money can really be quite blinding.
I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.
I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.
It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close if you wanted. Perhaps it's standing thigh deep in a river with the water passing at the exact but varying speed of life. You easily recognize this mortality and it dissipates into the landscape.
The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.
Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.
I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought
I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
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.