Latest Barry Hannah Quotes from Interviews

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• I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.

  Barry Hannah

  Hate, My Family, Genes

  Source: www.believermag.com

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

  Barry Hannah

  Writing, Musician, Albums

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

• 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.

• My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.

  Barry Hannah

  Plot, Stories, Language

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

• 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.

• I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.

  Barry Hannah

  Different, Plot, Care

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

• 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.