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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

Topics: Ecstasy Joy Just Love Middle Narrative Ongoing Pain Randomness Right Still I Love

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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

Topics: Also Confusion Engage Escape Find Fun Get Jumping Just Kind Like Myself Old-Fashioned Out Pool Pretty Tell Trance Try Why Wonderful World Writing You

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Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.

~Barry Hannah

Topics: Arrange Been Brush Cause Envy Feel Honestly Hour Like Masterpiece Minutes Morning Musicians Occasionally One Morning Painters Pitch Something Sometimes Tar Who Working Write Writing You 30 Minutes

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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

Topics: Away Best Little Spell Through Trance Voice Voices You

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My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

~Barry Hannah

Topics: Best Come Concern Form Nowhere Out Stories

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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.

~Barry Hannah

Topics: Got He Man Must Woman

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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.

~Barry Hannah

Topics: Against Always Because Flaw Full Had Kind Posture Rhetoric Time Whole Work Writing

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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

Topics: About Above Agony Because Ceases Comedy Damn Damn Thing Earth Funniest God Involved Just Other People Seems Solve Thing Think Toil Unhappiness Useless You

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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

Topics: Always Curiously Different Doing Essential Ever Get Give Had Me Mediums Music Musical Phrases Sentences Some Them Think Two Well Writers Writing 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

Topics: Actually Art Course Grew Hurting People Phony Seemed Some Themselves Up

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 23rd, 1942

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