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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

~Barry Hannah

Topics: Absolute Artificial Boyhood Certainly Create Freedom Grow Grow Up Had Media My Own Own Plenty Rush Silence Things Up

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I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.

~Barry Hannah

Topics: About Any Around Artist Certain Consume Even Go Me Musician Particularly Perhaps Person Regret Southern Think Thinking Whether Without Write Writer

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I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.

~Barry Hannah

Topics: Be Happy Been Creation Done Frankly Get Had Happy Help Joy Nearly Only Out People Teacher Teaching Young Young People

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

~Barry Hannah

Topics: Again Back Back Up Build Chosen Destroy Job Means Then Thing Up Writer

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I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.

~Barry Hannah

Topics: Editing Hate Love Revise Stuff Write I Love

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 23rd, 1942

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