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
I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.
The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.
Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North
Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.
I was on the verge of jumping into one of those holes in life out of which we emerge a bit tattered and bloody, though we remain sure nonetheless that we had to make the jump.
We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.
I have closely noted that people who watch a great deal of TV never again seem able to adjust to the actual pace of life. The speed of the passing images becomes the speed the aspire to and they seem to develop an impatience and boredom with anything else.
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.
We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.
Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
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.
Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.
A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.