276 Quotes by Jim Harrison

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

Dad said I would always be “high minded and low waged” from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

Goddamn but her mind was so exhausted with trying to hold the world together, tired of being the living glue for herself, as if she let go, great pieces of her life would shatter and fall off in mockery of the apocalypse.

The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That’s why I ran to the woods.

New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York – in case you haven’t noticed.

I don’t see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

I was feeling right at home all by myself. The woods can be a bit strange. It takes a long time to feel you belong there and then you never again really belong in town. It’s a choice made for you by your brain at a moment you don’t notice.

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.

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.