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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.

~Jim Harrison

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I've always been very much attracted to a character that's actually free.

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

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I can't stand the short story form, which, after all, is a magazine form.

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When I write, I don't like to be around any humans.

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Fiction writers tend to err either making people more than they are or less than they are. I'd rather err on the side of the former.

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I grew up in an agricultural family, and I never distanced myself from where the food comes from. I think it's quite natural.

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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!

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I'm a time person. It's the one discipline I manage.

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I admit to occasionally sharing the financial hysteria of the rest of the country, the urgency to save more for the family in case you can't write any more.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 11th, 1937

Died: March 26th, 2016

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