Top 103 Quotes by Jim Harrison

There's something frightening about finding a woman who would take your heart.

Whatever I learned reading 'Scientific American,' nothing can finally compete with your own observations.

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.

The idea is to eat well and not die from it - for the simple reason that that would be the end of your eating.

My favorite thing is just walking in the woods. I can do it for days on end without tiring of it.

I admit to occasionally sharing the financial hysteria of the rest of the country, the urgency to save more for the family in case you can't write any more.

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

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

The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.