“I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there ...” — Jim Harrison Quote

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

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.

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

What moves me most is style: the quality of the writing rather than the story being told.

I like grit. I like love and death. I'm tired of irony.

I'm a big Hemingway and Salinger fan.

I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn't hurt the book.

My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.