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    Jim Harrison

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    There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why. ↗


    — Jim Harrison

    #france #harvard #i #lot #me

    We are all naturally xenophobic. ↗


    — Jim Harrison

    #xenophobic

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


    — Jim Harrison

    #ethnicity #how #open #outside #sex

    Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints. ↗


    — Jim Harrison

    #complaints #enormous #had #haven #i

    Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too. ↗


    — Jim Harrison

    #market #notoriously #now #oriented #suddenly

    I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose. ↗


    — Jim Harrison

    #i #i write #like #loose #prose

    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. ↗


    — Jim Harrison

    #also #aspiring #garlic #give #helps

    I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence. ↗


    — Jim Harrison

    #fact #gender #human #human existence #i

    I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read. ↗


    — Jim Harrison

    #books #care #enjoy #i #i care

    I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist. ↗


    — Jim Harrison

    #good #i #journalist #rational






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    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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