Jim Harrison

"Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit."

"I used to get criticized for putting food in novels."

"Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend."

"I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read."

"The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it."

"After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do."