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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.
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- “I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.”Jim Harrison
- “I've never been a true fan of the short story and have only published a single example of my own.”Jim Harrison
- “Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people be…”Jim Harrison
- “I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.”Jim Harrison
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- “Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.”Joseph Hume
- “I'm from a really nice town. Full of nature, mountains, clean air, rock climbing. But I'd prefer New York Cit…”Millicent Simmonds
- “We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energie…”Ken Robinson
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Books by Jim Harrison
Warlock
1981
Letters to Yesenin
1973