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Jim Harrison

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I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.


— Jim Harrison


#ago #asked #because #books #both

I can write anywhere.


— Jim Harrison


#i #i can #write

I do have trouble with titles.


— Jim Harrison


#i do #titles #trouble

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.


— Jim Harrison


#does #i #know #now #person

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.


— Jim Harrison


#first #got #i #magazine #nation

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.


— Jim Harrison


#book #buy #i #rarely #read

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.


— Jim Harrison


#genuine #i #i see #michigan #mississippi

I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.


— Jim Harrison


#certain #chicago #cities #enjoy #especially

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.


— Jim Harrison


#i #memoir #more #pleasant #than

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.


— Jim Harrison


#food #get #i #novels #putting






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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