top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Question quotes
"Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died."
"A series of disconcerting questions nibbles at hearts of troubled youths. These same unanswered questions, along with their acerbic toxins, reveal their pungent fumes more frequently and with greater intensity as a person rushes headfirst into life's concrete jungle."
"That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous."
"We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions."
"Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all."
"I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me."
Explore more quotes by Jim Harrison
"The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling."
"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."
"After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do."
"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."
"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."
"I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago."
"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."
"Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be."
bottom of page