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  • Barry Hannah Quote - Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don’t get it. I don’t get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I’m doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn’t think you ever had. Download This Image
  • Barry Hannah Quote - Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don’t get it. I don’t get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I’m doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn’t think you ever had.
  • Barry Hannah Quote - Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don’t get it. I don’t get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I’m doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn’t think you ever had.
  • Barry Hannah Quote - Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don’t get it. I don’t get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I’m doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn’t think you ever had.
  • Barry Hannah Quote - Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don’t get it. I don’t get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I’m doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn’t think you ever had.
  • Barry Hannah Quote - Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don’t get it. I don’t get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I’m doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn’t think you ever had.
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Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don’t get it. I don’t get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I’m doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn’t think you ever had.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barry Hannah Quote - I don’t really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way. Download This Image

    I don’t really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.

    BARRY HANNAH
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barry Hannah Quote - When you’re not involved, other people’s unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it’s you, it ceases to be a comedy. Download This Image

    When you’re not involved, other people’s unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it’s you, it ceases to be a comedy.

    BARRY HANNAH
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barry Hannah Quote - I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I’ve had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture. Download This Image

    I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I’ve had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.

    BARRY HANNAH
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barry Hannah Quote - Love and despair go hand in hand. Download This Image

    Love and despair go hand in hand.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barry Hannah Quote - Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you? Download This Image

    Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barry Hannah Quote - I’ll tell you why I like writing: it’s just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it’s also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It’s pretty old-fashioned, but it’s fun. Download This Image

    I’ll tell you why I like writing: it’s just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it’s also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It’s pretty old-fashioned, but it’s fun.

    BARRY HANNAH
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barry Hannah Quote - Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you… they’re a little away from you. Download This Image

    Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you… they’re a little away from you.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barry Hannah Quote - I thought I was writing for a fairly hip, intelligent crowd; I just thought there were more of them out there. But they’re not. They’re not out there waiting. They’re not gonna use their intelligence on your book. Download This Image

    I thought I was writing for a fairly hip, intelligent crowd; I just thought there were more of them out there. But they’re not. They’re not out there waiting. They’re not gonna use their intelligence on your book.

    BARRY HANNAH
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barry Hannah Quote - I don’t really believe in a creative-writing major as an undergraduate. It’s a bad idea, terrible. I’ve met creative-writing majors from other places and they don’t know a goddamn thing. They’re the worst students. They just think they’re good because they could pass.

    I don’t really believe in a creative-writing major as an undergraduate. It’s a bad idea, terrible. I’ve met creative-writing majors from other places and they don’t know a goddamn thing. They’re the worst students. They just think they’re good because they could pass.

    BARRY HANNAH
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barry Hannah Quote - I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony. Download This Image

    I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

    BARRY HANNAH
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barry Hannah Quote - The point is to strip down, get protestant, then even more naked. Walk over scorched bricks to find your own soul. Your heart a searching dog in the rubble.

    The point is to strip down, get protestant, then even more naked. Walk over scorched bricks to find your own soul. Your heart a searching dog in the rubble.

    BARRY HANNAH
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barry Hannah Quote - The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl. Download This Image

    The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barry Hannah Quote - I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don’t like the wispy and the vague… or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I’m impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I’ve done have come to me by instinct. Download This Image

    I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don’t like the wispy and the vague… or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I’m impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I’ve done have come to me by instinct.

    BARRY HANNAH
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barry Hannah Quote - I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I’m glad I was disabused. Download This Image

    I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I’m glad I was disabused.

    BARRY HANNAH
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barry Hannah Quote - Professional Southerners sicken me. Download This Image

    Professional Southerners sicken me.

    BARRY HANNAH
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barry Hannah Quote - I found out about reviews early on. They’re mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That’s probably why I’m less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason. Download This Image

    I found out about reviews early on. They’re mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That’s probably why I’m less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.

    BARRY HANNAH