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  • Barry Hannah Quote - I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road. Download This Image
  • Barry Hannah Quote - I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
  • Barry Hannah Quote - I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
  • Barry Hannah Quote - I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
  • Barry Hannah Quote - I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
  • Barry Hannah Quote - I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
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I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.

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    I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience.

    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.

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  • 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.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barry Hannah Quote - Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That’s a supreme joy. And why the characters keep showing up. Download This Image

    Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That’s a supreme joy. And why the characters keep showing up.

    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.

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    Professional Southerners sicken me.

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  • 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.

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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 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 - 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 - 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 - 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

    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 - 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.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barry Hannah Quote - You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy. Download This Image

    You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.

    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.

    BARRY HANNAH
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barry Hannah Quote - I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, “Listen to this!” Download This Image

    I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, “Listen to this!”

    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