“Part of the grace of losing self-importance was the simple
question ‘Who cares?’ More importantly, he didn’t want to be a painter, he only
wanted to paint, two utterly different impulses. He had known many writers and
painters who apparently disliked writing and painting but just wanted to be
writers and painters.”
—Jim Harrison, The Land
of Unlikeness (ch. 12). In The River
Swimmer: Novellas. New York: Grove Press, 2013. Amazon BarnesandNoble