Top 103 Quotes by Jim Harrison

I do have trouble with titles.

You can't be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river.

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

If I can't be fishing or hunting, I want to be in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

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

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.

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.

You have to temporarily be the character in order to understand him. It's sort of what they used to call 'shape-shifting.'

I don't think it matters how fast you write. It's how long you thought about it. I like to think of it as a well filling up. I think about it until the well is full, and then I let go.