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  • Barry Hannah Quote - A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means. Download This Image
  • Barry Hannah Quote - A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
  • Barry Hannah Quote - A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
  • Barry Hannah Quote - A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
  • Barry Hannah Quote - A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
  • Barry Hannah Quote - A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
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A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

Barry Hannah

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  • 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 - I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It’s a myth. There’s so much bad gun stuff. Download This Image

    I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It’s a myth. There’s so much bad gun stuff.

    BARRY HANNAH
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barry Hannah Quote - I wouldn’t buy somebody’s album on a dare if they called him a musician’s musician. I don’t write to be a writer’s writer. I don’t want to be like the little-magazine writer. Download This Image

    I wouldn’t buy somebody’s album on a dare if they called him a musician’s musician. I don’t write to be a writer’s writer. I don’t want to be like the little-magazine writer.

    BARRY HANNAH
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barry Hannah Quote - Where is the angry machine of all of us? Why is God such a blurred magician? Why are you begging for your life if you believe those things? Prove to me that you’re better than the rabbits we ate last night. Download This Image

    Where is the angry machine of all of us? Why is God such a blurred magician? Why are you begging for your life if you believe those things? Prove to me that you’re better than the rabbits we ate last night.

    BARRY HANNAH
  • 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 - You’ve got to lie to stay halfway interested in yourself. Download This Image

    You’ve got to lie to stay halfway interested in yourself.

    BARRY HANNAH
  • 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?

    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 - The first two drinks were always wonderfully liberating. You think better. You’re braver, and you’ll say anything. If you could just hang in there with two or three, it’d be beautiful. The trouble was I couldn’t. Download This Image

    The first two drinks were always wonderfully liberating. You think better. You’re braver, and you’ll say anything. If you could just hang in there with two or three, it’d be beautiful. The trouble was I couldn’t.

    BARRY HANNAH
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barry Hannah Quote - There was no one, when I was in school, who talked about going in and blowing up students. The teachers were very stern and hateable, but nobody ever mentioned murder. Download This Image

    There was no one, when I was in school, who talked about going in and blowing up students. The teachers were very stern and hateable, but nobody ever mentioned murder.

    BARRY HANNAH
  • 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 write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that’s it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed. Download This Image

    I don’t write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that’s it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

    BARRY HANNAH
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barry Hannah Quote - The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer’s drug, but I’m glad that’s been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work. Download This Image

    The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer’s drug, but I’m glad that’s been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.

    BARRY HANNAH
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barry Hannah Quote - Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy. Download This Image

    Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.

    BARRY HANNAH
  • 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 - Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat. Download This Image

    Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.

    BARRY HANNAH