276 Quotes by Jim Harrison

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.

One of the curious effects of a bad hangover is that you think you're wrong whether you are or not. Not wrong in particulars, but wrong in general, wrong about everything.

The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.

Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.