Jim Harrison

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

I've got a poem that's in a lot of international anthologies called 'After the Anonymous Swedish' and I thought, 'Well, I'm a Swede. I can make up a Swedish poem.' It turned out pretty good.

Given free rein, our imagination can get infinite.

If I can't be fishing or hunting, I want to be in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

I work every morning, all morning, sometimes in the afternoons. Then sometimes I hunt in the afternoons - quail, doves, grouse up north - but just to stay alive, because writers die from their lifestyle but also from their lack of movement.

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

I used to have this illusion that time and remote areas prepare you for the world. Our moms used to think that kind of thing. Well, it doesn't prepare you for the world at all!

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.