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  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barry Hannah Quote - My stories do have plot. They’re not just scattered language; they’re controlled, toward an end. Download This Image

    My stories do have plot. They’re not just scattered language; they’re controlled, toward an end.

    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.

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  • 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.

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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 - 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 - 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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 - 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.

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  • 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 - 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 - My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all. Download This Image

    My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

    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.

    BARRY HANNAH
  • 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 - 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
  • 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