I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise. — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way. — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means. — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
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… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
“...it's always your first attempt every time you write, with your only companions being fear and coffee. That's the way it is… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
I thought I was writing for a fairly hip, intelligent crowd; I just thought there were more of them out there. But… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
“I got no idea wht a writer of a book should have respect. Or even get the time of day, unless he's… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village. — Barry Hannah Copy Share
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… — Barry Hannah Copy Share
“Many robins got in the church from the trees and roosted among the congregation. They were drunk from some berries and fallen persimmons. Come… — Barry Hannah Copy Share
Where is the angry machine of all of us? Why is God such a blurred magician? Why are you begging for your life if… — Barry Hannah Copy Share
My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end. — Barry Hannah Copy Share
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… — Barry Hannah Copy Share
“...it's always your first attempt every time you write, with your only companions being fear and coffee. That's the way it is a lot… — Barry Hannah Copy Share
Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it… — Barry Hannah Copy Share
I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any… — Barry Hannah Copy Share
