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Jim Harrison

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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.


— Jim Harrison


#clearness #crazy #great #hear #inner

I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.


— Jim Harrison


#actually #because #best #forced #i

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.


— Jim Harrison


#ernest hemingway #felt #hemingway #i #inevitable

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.


— Jim Harrison


#different #different places #drama #good #good drama

Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.


— Jim Harrison


#apparently #day #devoid #earth #naturally

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


— Jim Harrison


#haven #interested #mostly #new #new york

Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.


— Jim Harrison


#over #short #things

Success and money can really be quite blinding.


— Jim Harrison


#money #quite #really #success

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.


— Jim Harrison


#fact #gets #interstate #major #media

The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.


— Jim Harrison


#first #fun #fun thing #made #old






About Jim Harrison






Did you know about Jim Harrison?

Wolf: A False Memoir (1971) was the result. You can put off a novel for a while but you can’t not write a poem because that particular muse is not very cooperative. "It’s totally uncontrollable" he says.

Harrison's characters tend to be rural by birth and to have retained some qualities of their agrarian pioneer heritage by dint of their intelligence and some formal education. He has been called "a force of nature" and his work has been compared to that of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway.

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