American - Writer | December 11, 1937 - March 26, 2016
What moves me most is style: the quality of the writing rather than the story being told.
Jim Harrison
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Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot... I've seen all these marriages that failed. Those people are always hollering at each other. That doesn't work.
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Whatever I learned reading 'Scientific American,' nothing can finally compete with your own observations.
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We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.
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I wasn't taking myself seriously as a novelist, and then it became my day job.
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I had a concussion I didn't get over for three years. I think that's why I'm goofy.
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I don't trust anybody that doesn't do good work. I don't give them any credibility. If they can't write, why should I believe anything they have to say?
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I couldn't read a screenplay without puking.
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The idea is to eat well and not die from it - for the simple reason that that would be the end of your eating.
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I've got a poem that's in a lot of international anthologies called 'After the Anonymous Swedish' and I thought, 'Well, I'm a Swede. I can make up a Swedish poem.' It turned out pretty good.
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The reviews are getting better, but they always do, in time, if you're still alive.
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When I write, I don't like to be around any humans.
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