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 we're looking at right now is three teams that are unbeatable by any Southern Colorado team - Regis, Mullen and Broomfield. What we did (Tuesday) is we put ourselves in one of their brackets.
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.
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.
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
Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.
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.
Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.
As an English major I was familiar with the stories of dozens of writers trying to get their work done among the multifarious diversions of the world and the hurdles of their own vices. A professor had said that what saved writers is that they, like politicians, had the illusion of destiny that allowed them to overcome obstacles no matter how nominal their work.
I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.
I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.
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.