Author: Barry Hannah

Quotes

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

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

- Barry Hannah

Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.

Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.

- Barry Hannah

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

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

- Barry Hannah

Love and despair go hand in hand.

Love and despair go hand in hand.

- Barry Hannah

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.

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

I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.

I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.

- Barry Hannah

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.

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

I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

- Barry Hannah

I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

- Barry Hannah

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