Given free rein, our imagination can get infinite.
From Jim Harrison
If all I did was answer the correspondence I get, that would be my job.
Unlike a lot of writers, I don't have any craving to be understood.
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.
Other than fishing and a little bird-hunting, all I do is write.
You do manage a somewhat religious attitude toward your art. It is a calling rather than a job.
I've never been a true fan of the short story and have only published a single example of my own.
What moves me most is style: the quality of the writing rather than the story being told.
As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father. I think I was only 8 when I read Edward Gibbon's 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'
If all I did was pretend I was Wilderness Jimmy, I would go stale. You know, I fish maybe 100 days of the year and bird-hunt, but if I didn't go to Paris once or twice a year, I'd be crazy.
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