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.
Jim Harrison
Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
Jim Harrison
Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.
Jim Harrison
I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.
Jim Harrison
I can write anywhere.
Jim Harrison
I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.
Jim Harrison
I do have trouble with titles.
Jim Harrison
I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.
Jim Harrison
I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
Jim Harrison
I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
Jim Harrison
I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
Jim Harrison
I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
Jim Harrison
I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
Jim Harrison
I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.
Jim Harrison
I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
Jim Harrison
I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.
Jim Harrison
I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
Jim Harrison
I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
Jim Harrison
I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
Jim Harrison
I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.
Jim Harrison
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