Jim Harrison quote: "I don't feel tentative when I start to write. I've usually thought about a novel or novella for several years and created a lot of juice and density and energy by that time so by the time I get ready to go, I just let 'er fling, you know."

You can't be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river.
JIM HARRISON

Success and money can really be quite blinding.
JIM HARRISON

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such ...
JIM HARRISON

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

My biggest pet peeve is when you go to a fine restaurant, and it's like a mausoleum inside. Good...
JIM HARRISON

You can be in terrible shape, and if you take a three-hour walk through the forest and along the riv...
JIM HARRISON

Your subconscious mind is trying to help you all the time. That's why I keep a journal - not for...
JIM HARRISON

We are delightfully trapped by our memories. I can't drink a bottle of Chateauneuf-du-Pape Vieux...
JIM HARRISON

We pretend that the brain is binary, like a computer. But it's not. It's completely holograp...
JIM HARRISON

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give ...
JIM HARRISON

I work every morning, all morning, sometimes in the afternoons. Then sometimes I hunt in the afterno...
JIM HARRISON

I'm outdoors a lot, so I get dark. Guess who gets stopped? I've been pulled over, and they a...
JIM HARRISON

I do mourn my characters. I wrote an essay once where I was sure that far back in a marsh there was ...
JIM HARRISON

Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.
JIM HARRISON

As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father....
JIM HARRISON

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

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

The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a prec...
JIM HARRISON

I'm afraid that eating in restaurants reflects one's experiences with movies, art galleries,...
JIM HARRISON

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

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking toget...
JIM HARRISON

My favorite thing is just walking in the woods. I can do it for days on end without tiring of it.
JIM HARRISON

If all I did was pretend I was Wilderness Jimmy, I would go stale. You know, I fish maybe 100 days o...
JIM HARRISON

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.
JIM HARRISON

If you added it up, without her there was nothing--but with her even the simplest of gestures of wal...
JIM HARRISON

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
JIM HARRISON

Perhaps swimming was dancing under the water, he thought. To swim under lily pads seeing their green...
JIM HARRISON

There aren't any real dumb people in my voices. It's always irritated me about Hollywood dia...
JIM HARRISON

It can (rise and fall) in feet; it's not instantaneous, but it's very noticeable. Any up-and-down ac...
JIM HARRISON

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I ...
JIM HARRISON

You're never going to know who wrote which poem. That's a secret we're going to die with.
JIM HARRISON

In 20,000 walks you're bound to learn a little.
JIM HARRISON

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.
JIM HARRISON

Given free rein, our imagination can get infinite.
JIM HARRISON

I think about the sentence a long time, and then I write it. I don't revise it once it's set...
JIM HARRISON

The wife picked out ceramic tile for floor covering, not realizing that cost was determined by squar...
JIM HARRISON

I think the trouble with artists or chefs who whine about criticism is that if you love the good rev...
JIM HARRISON

We are all naturally xenophobic.
JIM HARRISON

You have to temporarily be the character in order to understand him. It's sort of what they used...
JIM HARRISON

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

I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry beca...
JIM HARRISON

The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I h...
JIM HARRISON

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
JIM HARRISON

Age focuses you. You are much better concentrated. There's more time when you travel less, don&#...
JIM HARRISON

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have th...
BENJAMIN HARRISON

I wonder what kind of lives they will have built for themselves when they turn 45 and can't real...
RANDY HARRISON

I hope that they are finding satisfaction. I'm in no way making a judgment. I know it doesn'...
RANDY HARRISON

It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to k...
RANDY HARRISON

It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to...
RANDY HARRISON

It always weirds me out and makes me unhappy that some people think I'm Justin. I'm not. Peo...
RANDY HARRISON

I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and...
RANDY HARRISON

I can't walk down the street with my head up. I'm not a hat wearer, but now I'm a hat we...
RANDY HARRISON

It's nice to see that people in Middle America are really affected.
RANDY HARRISON

When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all....
RANDY HARRISON

I've done sexual stuff before - onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV cre...
RANDY HARRISON

I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good...
RANDY HARRISON

Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
RANDY HARRISON

I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated bec...
RANDY HARRISON

I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that th...
RANDY HARRISON

I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
RANDY HARRISON

By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and prov...
RANDY HARRISON

I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not t...
RANDY HARRISON

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself....
RANDY HARRISON

I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get...
RANDY HARRISON

It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's...
RANDY HARRISON

I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wante...
RANDY HARRISON

A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it&#...
RANDY HARRISON

I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with peopl...
RANDY HARRISON

The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's re...
RANDY HARRISON

It's a clique that I've never been a part of. It's not like I identify them in a negativ...
RANDY HARRISON

I can't speak on behalf of the show. I'm not a creator; I'm just a pawn.
RANDY HARRISON

I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don&#...
HARRISON FORD

I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and...
HARRISON FORD

It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones...
HARRISON FORD

I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat...
HARRISON FORD

We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrad...
HARRISON FORD

I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was...
HARRISON FORD

Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see t...
HARRISON FORD

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
HARRISON FORD

You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
HARRISON FORD

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'
HARRISON FORD

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a ...
HARRISON FORD

If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.
HARRISON FORD

We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislo...
HARRISON FORD

I actually like snakes! When I was young, I was a boy scout nature camp counselor, and one of our pr...
HARRISON FORD

Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
HARRISON FORD

Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the huma...
HARRISON FORD

I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescu...
HARRISON FORD

I don't think there is much American music.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

Music is such a problem in the time it takes.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English m...
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various thre...
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way pai...
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

I'm not an architectural composer.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

It's the irrational things that interest me.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into ...
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when ...
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are ...
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whateve...
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are w...
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in...
BENJAMIN HARRISON

The bud of victory is always in the truth.
BENJAMIN HARRISON

Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, ...
GREGORY HARRISON

I see myself as the buffer between the band and the record company.
JERRY HARRISON

On the first 'Indiana Jones' movie, I tore an ACL in one of my knees - can't remember wh...
HARRISON FORD

So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but arou...
GREGORY HARRISON

If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there
GEORGE HARRISON

Rap bores me, and all the glamour rock groups like Bon Jovi just amuse me. They obviously have a pla...
GEORGE HARRISON

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship a...
JANE HARRISON

The articles were extremely eye-opening. Not just in Teen Vogue but in Seventeen and CosmoGirl as we...
LISI HARRISON

Life flows on within you and without you.
GEORGE HARRISON

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.
HARRISON SALISBURY

I'm quite curious and excited about seeing a new script for 'Blade Runner.' If, in fact,...
HARRISON FORD

The set for 'Blade Runner' was maybe the hardest set I've ever worked on because I think...
HARRISON FORD

Watching a make-out while wrapped in a blanket with a guy she wanted to make out with made her feel ...
LISI HARRISON

A life which has never been laid open in penitence and faith before God has little permanence in ete...
R.K. HARRISON

She didn't mind a little rain. At least no one would see her cry.
LISI HARRISON

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleadi...
GEORGE HARRISON

Are you a female dog?"
"What?" Massie asked. "Why?"
"Because you are acting like a real LISI HARRISON

It was becoming more and more evident that Salem was a town that celebrated individuality, a real li...
LISI HARRISON

It's all in the mind.
GEORGE HARRISON

To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with th...
JANE HARRISON

The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or...
GEORGE HARRISON

I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting o...
HARRISON FORD

Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The ...
REX HARRISON

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not...
JANE HARRISON

Times change, and we change with them.
WILLIAM HARRISON

Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of th...
EDWARD HARRISON

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
ELIZABETH HARRISON

There
REX HARRISON

The stars begin to fade like guttering candles and are snuffed out one by one. Out in the depths of ...
EDWARD HARRISON

Matter was like a faint precipitate suspended in a world of dense light.
EDWARD HARRISON

The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.
HARRY HARRISON

What is light without dark? Right without left? What is goodness without the option to be evil?
HARRISON CHRISTIAN

We have no commission from God to police the world.
BENJAMIN HARRISON

I've heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles w...
GEORGE HARRISON

I don't wear small shoes, or tight pants that squash your balls.
GEORGE HARRISON

The ultimate priority of humanity should not be to savour the power given to us, but rather to accou...
HARRISON CHRISTIAN

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
HARRISON FORD

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is ...
JANE HARRISON

Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.
HARRISON FORD

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.
HARRISON FORD

The adulation or the superstardom is something I could leave out quite happily.
GEORGE HARRISON

If I go to someplace like Switzerland, I find a lot of uptight people because they're living amo...
GEORGE HARRISON

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book...
HARRISON FORD

It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at ...
HARRISON FORD

I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in...
HARRISON FORD

In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it does...
GEORGE HARRISON

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of i...
GEORGE HARRISON

There's high, and there's high, and to get really high - I mean so high that you can walk on...
GEORGE HARRISON

As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dea...
GEORGE HARRISON

Gossip is the Devil's radio.
GEORGE HARRISON

With our love, we could save the world.
GEORGE HARRISON

I wanted to collaborate with someone, but it had to be someone I could work with and who wouldn'...
GEORGE HARRISON

I think of myself as a jungle musician because of my lack of formal training.
GEORGE HARRISON

The world used us as an excuse to go mad.
GEORGE HARRISON

The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.
GEORGE HARRISON

If we were all perfected beings, we wouldn't be here in the physical world.
GEORGE HARRISON

Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait.
GEORGE HARRISON

Love one another.
GEORGE HARRISON

You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want.
GEORGE HARRISON

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.
GEORGE HARRISON

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're o...
GEORGE HARRISON

Basically, I feel fortunate to have realized what the goal is in life. There's no point in dying...
GEORGE HARRISON

I'll tell you one thing for sure: once you get to the point where you're actually doing thin...
GEORGE HARRISON

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
GEORGE HARRISON

I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the riv...
GEORGE HARRISON

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.
JOHN HARRISON

I wanted to be successful, not famous.
GEORGE HARRISON

People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don'...
KIM HARRISON

I think guitar-wise, Eric Clapton was a big influence on me. I got to spend time around him. He'...
DHANI HARRISON

The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor man was ever made richer or h...
BENJAMIN HARRISON

I don't think people ought to take the elevator if they (can) walk, because they don't get to see th...
BENJAMIN HARRISON

I like the woodwork on the stairway, the way those men made everything so intricate.
BENJAMIN HARRISON

I knew that my staying up would not change the [election] result if I were defeated, while if electe...
BENJAMIN HARRISON

Great lives never go out; they go on.
BENJAMIN HARRISON

Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? ...
BENJAMIN HARRISON

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
BENJAMIN HARRISON

No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in ...
BENJAMIN HARRISON

Just when I was coping with the idea that I’d necked with a werewolf,” she muttered. “Just whe...
THEA HARRISON

You need to be clever to best him. Are you clever, Rachel?”
Oh God. She wants to know if I...
KIM HARRISON

I don't feel tentative when I start to write. I've usually thought about a novel or novella for several years and created a lot of juice and density and energy by that time so by the time I get ready to go, I just let 'er fling, you know.

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Jim Harrison

I don't feel tentative when I start to write. I've usually thought about a novel or novella for several years and created a lot of juice and density and energy by that time so by the time I get ready to go, I just let 'er fling, you know.

Jim Harrison

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