I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.
From Jim Harrison
I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
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.
I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.
I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.
Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.
Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.
I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
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