Top 103 Quotes by Jim Harrison

About Jim Harrison

These are some quotes by American author Jim Harrison Writer, who was born on December 11, 1937.

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

Jim Harrison

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

Jim Harrison

Fiction writers tend to err either making people more than they are or less than they are. I'd rather err on the side of the former.

Fiction writers tend to err either making people more than they are or less than they are. I'd rather err on the side of the former.

Jim Harrison

I wrote 'Legends of the Fall' in nine days, but I had been thinking about it for a few years.

I wrote 'Legends of the Fall' in nine days, but I had been thinking about it for a few years.

Jim Harrison

Nothing in the world causes more problems than concepts of ethnic virtue. It's irrelevant.

Nothing in the world causes more problems than concepts of ethnic virtue. It's irrelevant.

Jim Harrison

We pretend that the brain is binary, like a computer. But it's not. It's completely holographic.

We pretend that the brain is binary, like a computer. But it's not. It's completely holographic.

Jim Harrison

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

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

Jim Harrison

Between the two dream coasts, we're just called flyover country... If you aren't known as an amorphous Eastern Seaboard writer, you're dismissed as a regional author.

Between the two dream coasts, we're just called flyover country... If you aren't known as an amorphous Eastern Seaboard writer, you're dismissed as a regional author.

Jim Harrison

I'm a time person. It's the one discipline I manage.

I'm a time person. It's the one discipline I manage.

Jim Harrison

I'm outdoors a lot, so I get dark. Guess who gets stopped? I've been pulled over, and they ask, 'Where are you from?' I say, 'Montana.' They say, 'Are you sure? And I say, 'I'm reasonably sure I'm from Montana, but you know, this is a dream life.' You start on this shtick with them and it's fun.

Jim Harrison

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