276 Quotes by Jim Harrison

If all I did was pretend I was Wilderness Jimmy, I would go stale. You know, I fish maybe 100 days of the year and bird-hunt, but if I didn't go to Paris once or twice a year, I'd be crazy.

What moves me most is style: the quality of the writing rather than the story being told.

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot... I've seen all these marriages that failed. Those people are always hollering at each other. That doesn't work.

I'm outdoors a lot, so I get dark. Guess who gets stopped? I've been pulled over, and they ask, 'Where are you from?' I say, 'Montana.' They say, 'Are you sure? And I say, 'I'm reasonably sure I'm from Montana, but you know, this is a dream life.' You start on this shtick with them and it's fun.

Either you can do what others want, or you can do what you want to do. That's an easy call.

Whatever I learned reading 'Scientific American,' nothing can finally compete with your own observations.

The reviews are getting better, but they always do, in time, if you're still alive.

We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.

I wasn't taking myself seriously as a novelist, and then it became my day job.