Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison
James "Jim" Harrisonwas an American author known for his poetry, fiction, reviews, essays about the outdoors, and writings about food. He is best known for his 1979 novella Legends of the Fall. He has been called "a force of nature", and his work has been compared to that of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. Harrison's characters tend to be rural by birth and to have retained some qualities of their agrarian pioneer heritage in spite of their intelligence and some...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 December 1937
CountryUnited States of America
Nothing on my trip thus far was as I expected which shows you that rather than simply read about the United States you have to log the journey.
I do have trouble with titles.
The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.
I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.
Success and money can really be quite blinding.
I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits.
I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.
Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.
Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls...
I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.
We are all naturally xenophobic.