276 Quotes by Jim Harrison

I had a concussion I didn't get over for three years. I think that's why I'm goofy.

Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

I don't trust anybody that doesn't do good work. I don't give them any credibility. If they can't write, why should I believe anything they have to say?

I couldn't read a screenplay without puking.

The idea is to eat well and not die from it - for the simple reason that that would be the end of your eating.

The big curse of America, to me, is skinless, boneless chicken breasts. They're banal and relatively flavorless. The rest of the world's trying to get some fat to eat, and we're trying to ban it from our diet.

I've always been very much attracted to a character that's actually free.

I can't stand the short story form, which, after all, is a magazine form.

The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.