Quotes by Barry Hannah

Barry Hannah

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

Chosen

Jobs

Mean

Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?

Children

Grew Up

Parent

I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience.

Audience

Light

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’m impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I’ve done have come to me by instinct.

Done

Too Much

Writing

I do believe that as you write more and age, the arrogance and most of the vanity goes. Or it is a vanity met with vast gratitude, that you were hit by something as you stood in the way of it, that anybody is listening.

Believe

Gratitude

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 have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

Country

Motorcycle

Writing

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 it can be a wrecking posture.

Flaws

Kind

Writing

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 writer. I don’t want to be like the little-magazine writer.

Albums

Musician

Writing

If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren’t really there.

Able

Men

Suffering

Literature is the history of the soul.

Literature

Soul

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Able

Agony

Albums

And Love

Audience

Believe

Character

Children

Chosen

Country

Dog

Done

Drinking

Feel Good

Flaws

Gratitude

Grew Up

Heart

Hell

Jobs

Joy

Kind

Language

Light

Literature

Long

Love You

Mean

Men

Motorcycle

Musician

Needs

Night

Parent

People

Plot

Rabbits

School

Soul

Stories

Students

Stuff

Suffering

Teacher

Thieves

Thinking

Too Much

Writing

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Quotes by Barry Hannah

Barry Hannah

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

Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?

I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience.

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’m impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I’ve done have come to me by instinct.

I do believe that as you write more and age, the arrogance and most of the vanity goes. Or it is a vanity met with vast gratitude, that you were hit by something as you stood in the way of it, that anybody is listening.

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 have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

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 it can be a wrecking posture.

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 writer. I don’t want to be like the little-magazine writer.

If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren’t really there.

Literature is the history of the soul.

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