276 Quotes by Jim Harrison

When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought

I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.

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

So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

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.

Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.

That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.

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.