American - Writer | December 11, 1937 - March 26, 2016
The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.
Jim Harrison
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I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
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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.
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Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.
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The big curse of America, to me, is skinless, boneless chicken breasts. They're banal and relatively flavorless. The rest of the world's trying to get some fat to eat, and we're trying to ban it from our diet.
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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.
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I've always been very much attracted to a character that's actually free.
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I can't stand the short story form, which, after all, is a magazine form.
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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.
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I like grit. I like love and death. I'm tired of irony.
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The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.
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If I can't be fishing or hunting, I want to be in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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