Author Family poet Money Nature So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money. - Jim Harrison
Rest War First 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. - Jim Harrison
Time I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself. - Jim Harrison
Contrast Drama Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast. - Jim Harrison
Writers Sex Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be. - Jim Harrison
State I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best. - Jim Harrison
Day Years The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling. - Jim Harrison
All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child. - Anna Quindlen
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. - Francis Bacon
The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against. - Suzanne Fields