I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means. — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise. — 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
Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
I do believe that as you write more and age, the arrogance and most of the vanity goes. Or it is a… — 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
I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I… — 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
Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in a creative-writing major as an undergraduate. It's a bad idea, terrible. I've met creative-writing majors from other… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble… — 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 found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience. — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end. — Barry Hannah Copy Share 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… — 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 a lot… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
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 Image
