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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

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I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

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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.

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Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.

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I think the trouble with artists or chefs who whine about criticism is that if you love the good reviews, you have to at least read the bad ones.

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Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.

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If all I did was answer the correspondence I get, that would be my job.

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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.

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Other than fishing and a little bird-hunting, all I do is write.

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You do manage a somewhat religious attitude toward your art. It is a calling rather than a job.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 11th, 1937

Died: March 26th, 2016

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