Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be. Jim Harrison dependethnicityopen Change image and share on social
If all I did was answer the correspondence I get, that would be my job. Jim Harrison answercorrespondencejob Change image and share on social
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 aestheticallyartistcall Change image and share on social
I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now. Jim Harrison personpsychotherapyyear Change image and share on social
My biggest pet peeve is when you go to a fine restaurant, and it's like a mausoleum inside. Good food should be joyful. There should be laughter and chatter, not people sitting there like they're in a funeral-parlor waiting room. Jim Harrison bigchatterfine share on social
You can be in terrible shape, and if you take a three-hour walk through the forest and along the river, you're simply not the same as when you started out. Jim Harrison foresthourriver Change image and share on social
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 longrevisesentence Change image and share on social
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 calldealfeel Change image and share on social
I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was. Jim Harrison franklymemoirpleasant Change image and share on social