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Jim Harrison Biography

James Harrison (December 11, 1937 – March 26, 2016) was an American writer known for his poetry, fiction, reviews, essays about the outdoors, and writings about food. He is best known for his 1979 novella Legends of the Fall. He has been called "a force of nature", and his work has been compared to that of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. Harrison's characters tend to be rural by birth and to have retained some qualities of their agrarian pioneer heritage which explains their sense of rugged intelligence and common sense. They attune themselves to both the natural and the civilized world, surrounded by excesses but determined to live their lives as well as possible.

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No one else can hold your hand or take this voyage of the soul for you.

Encouraging, Hands, Hold, Soul, Voyage

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.

Fun, Literature, Rest, Thing, War

You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it.

Deeply, Lightly, Moves, Moving, Things, Touch

I wonder, when a writer's blocked and doesn't have any resources to pull himself out of it, why doesn't he jump in his car and drive around the U. S. A. ? I went last winter for seven thousand miles and it was lovely. Inexpensive, too.

Blocked, Car, Lovely, Winter

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

Language, Poetry, Soul, Speak

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

Concepts, Literature, Publishing, Unrealistic, Works, Writers

What cannot be said, will get wept.

Said, Wept

That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.

Against, Build, Crafts, Defense, Sentence, World

Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.

Fate, Hardship, Justice, Ladled, Trips

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

Contrast, Different, Drama, Places, Two

Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.

Beware, Road, Walking, Wanderer, Wanderers

In a life properly lived, you're a river.

Life, Lived, Properly, River, Rivers

Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.

Form, Literature, Long, Short, Things

Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. (from "To a Meadowlark," for M. L. Smoker)

Fire, Forgiving, House, Live, Wheels, Wherever

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.

France, Harvard, Literature, Neurologist, Readers, Woman

New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.

Case, Cases, Literature, Mostly, New York, Yorkers

Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.

Kids, Moving, Vacation, Vacations, Younger

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

Book, Magazine, Magazines, Nation, Poems, Poetry

Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls.

Balls, Fishing, Lakes, Like, Playing, Sea

I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

Corny, Disappointment, Full, Giving, Loves, Risk

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