Writer Quotes by Barry Hannah

Literature is the history of the soul.

— Barry Hannah

I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.

— Barry Hannah

I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.

— Barry Hannah

Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer…

— Barry Hannah

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

— Barry Hannah

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

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

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

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

“...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

I thought I was writing for a fairly hip, intelligent crowd; I just thought there were more of them out there. But…

— Barry Hannah

“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