Top 103 Quotes by Jim Harrison

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

I wasn't taking myself seriously as a novelist, and then it became my day job.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

The person that was closest to me growing up was my sister, who died at 19. She was an incredibly powerful girl, deeply committed to art and literature.

If all I did was pretend I was Wilderness Jimmy, I would go stale. You know, I fish maybe 100 days of the year and bird-hunt, but if I didn't go to Paris once or twice a year, I'd be crazy.

I've got a poem that's in a lot of international anthologies called 'After the Anonymous Swedish' and I thought, 'Well, I'm a Swede. I can make up a Swedish poem.' It turned out pretty good.

Sometimes, discomfort is very uncomfortable. Anybody can get occasionally tired of it, and then it can change fast, where it's comfort that disturbs you.