"Most novels I come across have all the……" — Barry Hannah
"Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat."
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32 Quotes by Barry Hannah
Barry Hannah has 32 quotes on this site.
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Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out…
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If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.
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Literature is the history of the soul.
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You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.
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The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.
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Professional Southerners sicken me.
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I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, "Listen to this!"
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I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed…
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Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from…
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I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was…
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I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked…
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Love and despair go hand in hand.
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Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
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I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody…
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As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of…
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When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you…
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse…
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Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the…
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If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
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