Jim Harrison
novelist, screenwriter, essayist, writer, poet, children's writer, film screenwriter
Read on Wikipedia1937 – 2016
All Quotes by Jim Harrison
“Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.”
“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.'”
“Age focuses you. You are much better concentrated. There's more time when you travel less, don't do book tours, avoid interviews or public appearances. You walk the dogs, fish, hunt, cook and write.”
“It's very difficult to look at the World”
“Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving”
“Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.”
“Sometimes, I tell my wife I have to take a car trip and collect new memories - I like to drive around at absolute random for weeks on end through the United States and parts of Canada. Or else I feel trapped, like you feel when your life is completely planned for months in advance, and you think you're not getting enough oxygen.”
“A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.”
“We are delightfully trapped by our memories. I can't drink a bottle of Chateauneuf-du-Pape Vieux Telegraphe without revisiting a hotel bistro in Luzerne, Switzerland, where I ate a large bowl of a peppery Basque baby goat stew. A sip and a bite. A bite and sip. Goose bumps come with the divine conjunction of food and wine.”
“Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.”
“Sometimes, I tell my wife I have to take a car trip and collect new memories - I like to drive around at absolute random for weeks on end through the United States and parts of Canada. Or else I feel trapped, like you feel when your life is completely planned for months in advance, and you think you're not getting enough oxygen.”
“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.”