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About Jim Harrison
American poet, novelist, and essayist
Jim Harrison was an American poet, novelist, and essayist. He wrote across the 20th and early 21st centuries, and remains best known for the range of his work and for the poems he valued most. He is associated with 113 quotes on this site. Harrison published more than three dozen books in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, children’s literature, and memoir. He also wrote screenplays, book reviews, and literary criticism, and he published essays on food, travel, and sport. Among his many forms, he said poetry mattered most to him.
More from Jim Harrison (113 quotes) →Other sayings from Jim Harrison
- “If I can't be fishing or hunting, I want to be in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.”Jim Harrison
- “The person that was closest to me growing up was my sister, who died at 19. She was an incredibly powerful gi…”Jim Harrison
- “I think about the sentence a long time, and then I write it. I don't revise it once it's set down.”Jim Harrison
- “I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.”Jim Harrison
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- “I don't discuss my own beliefs in public, but I will say the beliefs I've given my characters do not necessar…”Christopher Paolini
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Books by Jim Harrison
Warlock
1981
Letters to Yesenin
1973