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Jim Harrison Quotes

American - Writer | December 11, 1937 - March 26, 2016

My biggest pet peeve is when you go to a fine restaurant, and it's like a mausoleum inside. Good food should be joyful. There should be laughter and chatter, not people sitting there like they're in a funeral-parlor waiting room.

Good Food Pet Waiting Good Food You

Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

Best Soul Poetry Speak Language You

I work every morning, all morning, sometimes in the afternoons. Then sometimes I hunt in the afternoons - quail, doves, grouse up north - but just to stay alive, because writers die from their lifestyle but also from their lack of movement.

Work Morning Die Alive Sometimes Up

As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father. I think I was only 8 when I read Edward Gibbon's 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'

Family Winter Father History Child

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

Heart Woman Finding Take Something

There aren't any real dumb people in my voices. It's always irritated me about Hollywood dialogue - there's so much dialogue that would just bore a Ford mechanic. This is not how people talk.

People Me Mechanic Dumb Hollywood

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

New York You New New Yorkers Noticed

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.

Life Red Wine Advice You I Can

Given free rein, our imagination can get infinite.

Imagination Free Infinite Get Our

Food is a great literary theme. Food in eternity, food and sex, food and lust. Food is a part of the whole of life. Food is not separate.

Life Great Food Sex Lust Theme

You do manage a somewhat religious attitude toward your art. It is a calling rather than a job.

Attitude Art Job You Your Rather

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

Wish Sex Write Outside Open How

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