Top 103 Quotes by Jim Harrison

Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.

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.

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

I had a concussion I didn't get over for three years. I think that's why I'm goofy.

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.

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?

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

I think about the sentence a long time, and then I write it. I don't revise it once it's set down.

Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.