276 Quotes by Jim Harrison

As an English major I was familiar with the stories of dozens of writers trying to get their work done among the multifarious diversions of the world and the hurdles of their own vices. A professor had said that what saved writers is that they, like politicians, had the illusion of destiny that allowed them to overcome obstacles no matter how nominal their work.

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

How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.

When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose than playfulness.

No one else can hold your hand or take this voyage of the soul for you.

The days are stacked against what we think we are.

That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.

Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, "Que pasa, baby?

I wonder, when a writer's blocked and doesn't have any resources to pull himself out of it, why doesn't he jump in his car and drive around the U.S.A.? I went last winter for seven thousand miles and it was lovely. Inexpensive, too.