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
What cannot be said, will get wept.
I can write anywhere.
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.
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)
The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.
The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.
My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it.
This infantile sense of order tended to infect my life at large. Up at 5:30 a.m., coffee, oatmeal, perhaps sausage (homemade), and fresh eggs giving one of the yolks to Lola. Listening to NPR and grieving more recently over the absence of Bob Edwards who was the sound of morning as surely as birds. Reading a paragraph or two of Emerson or Loren Eiseley to raise the level of my thinking. Going out to feed the cattle if it was during our six months of bad weather.
I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.
The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.
Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.