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Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
Barry Hannah
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Barry Hannah
Age: 67 †
Born: 1942
Born: April 23
Died: 2010
Died: March 1
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University Teacher
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Meridian
Mississippi
Howard Barry Hannah
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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 was disabused.
Barry Hannah
Love and despair go hand in hand.
Barry Hannah
If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.
Barry Hannah
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?
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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 you.
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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, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
Barry Hannah
What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.
Barry Hannah
A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
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 writer. I don't want to be like the little-magazine writer.
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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 doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.
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I don't really care about plot I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.
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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.
Barry Hannah
You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.
Barry Hannah
My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.
Barry Hannah
I thought I was writing for a fairly hip, intelligent crowd I just thought there were more of them out there. But they're not. They're not out there waiting. They're not gonna use their intelligence on your book.
Barry Hannah
Professional Southerners sicken me.
Barry Hannah
The wild stuff is all so overrated. Drinking, you don't feel good all the time. There's a lot of down, a lot of misery.
Barry Hannah
The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.
Barry Hannah
I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience.
Barry Hannah
When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.
Barry Hannah
