I don’t feel tentative when I start to write. I’ve usually thought about a novel or novella for several years and created a lot of juice and density and energy by that time so by the time I get ready to go, I just let ‘er fling, you know. Jim Harrison Read Quote
I became aesthetically obsessed with language. And ‘literary artist’ – poet and novelist – is a calling. You are called to it the way preachers are called to preaching the gospel. Jim Harrison Read Quote
I think about the sentence a long time, and then I write it. I don’t revise it once it’s set down. Jim Harrison Read Quote
I’m afraid that eating in restaurants reflects one’s experiences with movies, art galleries, novels, music – that is, characterized by mild amusement but with an overall feeling of stupidity and shame. Better to cook for yourself. Jim Harrison Read Quote
Food is a great literary theme. Food in eternity, food and sex, food and lust. Food is a part of the whole of life. Food is not separate. Jim Harrison Read Quote
You have to temporarily be the character in order to understand him. It’s sort of what they used to call ‘shape-shifting.’ Jim Harrison Read Quote
Nothing in the world causes more problems than concepts of ethnic virtue. It’s irrelevant. Jim Harrison Read Quote
I won’t talk or deal with a young writer unless I sense he has utterly given his life over to it. It’s a waste of my time. If they don’t feel ‘called’ – why in God’s name would you do this? Jim Harrison Read Quote
How is it macho that I like to hunt and fish? I’ve been doing it since I was four. Jim Harrison Read Quote
