Barry Hannah Quotes - Page 2

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• 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 so much bad gun stuff.

  Barry Hannah

  Gun, Pistols, Stuff

  Interview with Wells Tower, believermag.com. October 1, 2010.

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• I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.

  Barry Hannah

  Boys, Practice, Endless

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• There was no one, when I was in school, who talked about going in and blowing up students. The teachers were very stern and hateable, but nobody ever mentioned murder.

  Barry Hannah

  Teacher, School, Students

  Interview with Wells Tower, believermag.com. October 1, 2010.

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• 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?

  Barry Hannah

  Children, Parent, Grew Up

  Interview with Wells Tower, believermag.com. October 1, 2010.

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

  Barry Hannah

  Light, Audience

  Interview with Wells Tower, believermag.com. October 1, 2010.

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• 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

  Book, Writing, Intelligent

  Interview with Wells Tower, believermag.com. October 1, 2010.

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

  Barry Hannah

  Jobs, Mean, Chosen

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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, Drinking, Writing

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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.

  Barry Hannah

  Voice, Littles, Away From You

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• I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

  Barry Hannah

  Art, Hurt, People

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• 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 with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.

  Barry Hannah

  Hate, Drinking, Alcohol

  Interview with Wells Tower, believermag.com. October 1, 2010.

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• 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

  Drinking, Feel Good, Stuff

  Interview with Wells Tower, believermag.com. October 1, 2010.

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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.

  Barry Hannah

  Writing, Thinking, Two

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• The first two drinks were always wonderfully liberating. You think better. You're braver, and you'll say anything. If you could just hang in there with two or three, it'd be beautiful. The trouble was I couldn't.

  Barry Hannah

  Beautiful, Thinking, Two

  Interview with Wells Tower, believermag.com. October 1, 2010.

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• Love and despair go hand in hand.

  Barry Hannah

  Hands, Despair, Hand In Hand

  Barry Hannah (2007). “Yonder Stands Your Orphan”, p.209, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, "Listen to this!"

  Barry Hannah

  Inspiration, Wife, My Wife

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• 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 places and they don't know a goddamn thing. They're the worst students. They just think they're good because they could pass.

  Barry Hannah

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Wells Tower, believermag.com. October 1, 2010.

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