Quote

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.

Jim Harrison

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
Author
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Grayling
Michigan
James Harrison
Somebody
Publisher
Literature
Chapter
Peace
Publishers
War
Chapters
Firsts
Recognized
First
Sent
Thing
Rest
Made
Fun
Typed

More quotes by Jim Harrison

Image
Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.
Jim Harrison
Image
When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought
Jim Harrison
Image
How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.
Jim Harrison
Image
I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
Jim Harrison
Image
I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
Jim Harrison
Image
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.
Jim Harrison
Image
Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.
Jim Harrison
Image
Zen is the vehicle of reality.
Jim Harrison
Image
In a life properly lived, you're a river.
Jim Harrison
Image
I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
Jim Harrison
Image
We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.
Jim Harrison
Image
The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
Jim Harrison
Image
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
Jim Harrison
Image
I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.
Jim Harrison
Image
I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
Jim Harrison
Image
A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.
Jim Harrison
Image
It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close if you wanted. Perhaps it's standing thigh deep in a river with the water passing at the exact but varying speed of life. You easily recognize this mortality and it dissipates into the landscape.
Jim Harrison
Image
I can write anywhere.
Jim Harrison
Image
The days are stacked against what we think we are.
Jim Harrison
Image
My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
Jim Harrison