Top 103 Quotes by Jim Harrison

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

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

Nothing in the world causes more problems than concepts of ethnic virtue. It's irrelevant.

There's something frightening about finding a woman who would take your heart.

The reviews are getting better, but they always do, in time, if you're still alive.

I don't think it matters how fast you write. It's how long you thought about it. I like to think of it as a well filling up. I think about it until the well is full, and then I let go.

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

I'm a time person. It's the one discipline I manage.

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.

I couldn't read a screenplay without puking.