If someone didn't believe in me that would kind of be a compliment in a way. — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
For 2,500 years, people have been writing odes. Why? I think that there's something innately human in wanting to praise the world… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
You want to make a representative selection, but at the same time, you want to give a sense of the whole project.… — Barbara Hamby Conflict Copy Share Image
I think it's really hard to be joyful. I work hard at it. I always feel like it's a choice. You can… — Barbara Hamby Choices Copy Share Image
Travel is something that I like to do because it gives you lots of images, and it also really makes you think… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
I was born in New Orleans, but I grew up in Hawaii. That was a paradise. That's a paradise I keep inside… — Barbara Hamby Book Copy Share Image
When I was a young woman, I had this friend who was really beautiful, and she would talk about how she was… — Barbara Hamby Bad habit Copy Share Image
I was raised in a strict fundamentalist household, and I always say that gives you a muscle of belief. I want to… — Barbara Hamby Art Copy Share Image
One of my problems with religion is that it's limiting in so many ways. I remember the first time I took a… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
Everybody spoke English in my class, and they would turn to me and say, "What's going on in your country?" I would… — Barbara Hamby Costa rica Copy Share Image
One of things I write about a lot is the role of women. An older friend of mine said that she feels… — Barbara Hamby Book Copy Share Image
I don't know anything about chemistry, but I know that there's a whole world of chemistry, of professional chemists. They have their… — Barbara Hamby Chemistry Copy Share Image
I guess it was easier for me to find my voice in poetry than it was in fiction. I'm working on fiction… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
I know that one of the things that I really did to push myself was to write more formal poems, so I… — Barbara Hamby Challenges Copy Share Image
Cynie Cory roams the outer reaches of the heart’s territory, from the snowy winter of family life to the tropical jungles of… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
