Will Harrison
Will Harrison
slumps
Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.
wonder true-north
Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
fire house forget
We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
lunch answers sometimes
Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.
advice soul trying
My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
couple book thinking
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 cooking together
Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.
destiny trying stories
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.
teaching ruins literature
I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.
inevitable felt
I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.
teaching brain brain-tumor
I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
journey united-states shows
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.
winter car lovely
I wonder, when a writer's blocked and doesn't have any resources to pull himself out of it, why doesn't he jump in his car and drive around the U.S.A.? I went last winter for seven thousand miles and it was lovely. Inexpensive, too.
titles trouble
I do have trouble with titles.