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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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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.

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    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 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.

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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.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram 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

    A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barry Hannah Quote - If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren’t really there. Download This Image

    If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren’t really there.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram 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

    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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  • 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 - 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.

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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 - Professional Southerners sicken me. Download This Image

    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 - 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’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.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barry Hannah Quote - I do believe that as you write more and age, the arrogance and most of the vanity goes. Or it is a vanity met with vast gratitude, that you were hit by something as you stood in the way of it, that anybody is listening. Download This Image

    I do believe that as you write more and age, the arrogance and most of the vanity goes. Or it is a vanity met with vast gratitude, that you were hit by something as you stood in the way of it, that anybody is listening.

    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 - 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
  • 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