“There aren't any real dumb people in my voices. It's always irritated ...” — Jim Harrison Quote

“There aren't any real dumb people in my voices. It's always irritated me about Hollywood dialogue - there's so much dialogue that would just bore a Ford mechanic. This is not how people talk.”

“Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.”

“My favorite thing is just walking in the woods. I can do it for days on end without tiring of it.”

“If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.”

“Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.”

“I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it a bore. Fear and insecurity are great motivators.”