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Writing Quotes by Barry Hannah
- 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 glad…
- I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing.…
- I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I…
- I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because…
- I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world,…
- Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold