Top 103 Quotes by Jim Harrison

Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.

I've always been intemperate in my affection for food.

So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.

I can write anywhere.

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

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

I've always been very much attracted to a character that's actually free.

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

New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.

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.