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I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.
Quote by -Jim Harrison
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.
Quote by -Jim Harrison
Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
Quote by -Jim Harrison
Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
Quote by -Jim Harrison
I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
Quote by -Jim Harrison
Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
Quote by -Jim Harrison
I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
Quote by -Jim Harrison
I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
Quote by -Jim Harrison
Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.
Quote by -Jim Harrison
I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
Quote by -Jim Harrison
I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.
Quote by -Jim Harrison
Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.
Quote by -Jim Harrison
I've never been a true fan of the short story and have only published a single example of my own.
Quote by -Jim Harrison
Whatever I learned reading 'Scientific American,' nothing can finally compete with your own observations.
Quote by -Jim Harrison
I had a concussion I didn't get over for three years. I think that's why I'm goofy.
Quote by -Jim Harrison
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?
Quote by -Jim Harrison
The reviews are getting better, but they always do, in time, if you're still alive.
Quote by -Jim Harrison
The person that was closest to me growing up was my sister, who died at 19. She was an incredibly powerful girl, deeply committed to art and literature.
Quote by -Jim Harrison
I grew up in an agricultural family, and I never distanced myself from where the food comes from. I think it's quite natural.
Quote by -Jim Harrison
Age focuses you. You are much better concentrated. There's more time when you travel less, don't do book tours, avoid interviews or public appearances. You walk the dogs, fish, hunt, cook and write.
Quote by -Jim Harrison
Between the two dream coasts, we're just called flyover country... If you aren't known as an amorphous Eastern Seaboard writer, you're dismissed as a regional author.
Quote by -Jim Harrison
I don't want to go around like some kind of bleeding giant or whatever, or thinking I'm a big deal, because it doesn't help you do your work. I think people like Hemingway got into an awful lot of trouble that way.
Quote by -Jim Harrison
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
Quote by -Joseph Brodsky
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
Quote by -Joseph Brodsky
Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
Quote by -Joseph Brodsky
An ethical man doesn't need a consensus of his allies in order to act against something he finds reprehensible.
Quote by -Joseph Brodsky
Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.
Quote by -Joseph Brodsky
No matter how daring or cautious you may choose to be, in the course of your life, you are bound to come into direct physical contact with what's known as Evil. I mean here not a property of the gothic novel but, to say the least, a palpable social reality that you in no way can control.
Quote by -Joseph Brodsky