I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, “Listen to this!”
BARRY HANNAHThe wild stuff is all so overrated. Drinking, you don’t feel good all the time. There’s a lot of down, a lot of misery.
More Barry Hannah Quotes
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Literature is the history of the soul.
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If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren’t really there.
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I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience.
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A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
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The wild stuff is all so overrated. Drinking, you don’t feel good all the time. There’s a lot of down, a lot of misery.
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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.
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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.
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I don’t really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.
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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.
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What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is… We are all overbrained and overemotioned.
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You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.
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Professional Southerners sicken me.
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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.
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My stories do have plot. They’re not just scattered language; they’re controlled, toward an end.
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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.
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