Quotes About Jim Harrison

I can't stand the short story form, which, after all, is a magazine form.

Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.

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.

What moves me most is style: the quality of the writing rather than the story being told.

Unlike a lot of writers, I don't have any craving to be understood.

I wish Barry Lopez would write novels. from Conversations with Jim Harrison

I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.

I had met Jack Kerouac a couple of times and it mystified me that his recent success with On the Road meant only that he had freedom to become hopelessly drunk.

No one has figured out how accidental is the marriage of blasphemy and fate.

She sounded untypically merry on the phone, enjoying the rare whorish feeling she was sure would pass.