“I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.” WayWantKindDifferentCarePagesPlotDifferent KindsTurner Author:Barry Hannah
“I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.” WritingKindDoneLife IsToo MuchLogicInstinctVagueInteriorsDistrustImpatientOverrated Author:Barry Hannah
“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.” WritingKindWholeFlawsRhetoricPosture Author:Barry Hannah
“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.” WorldWritingTryingKindFunWonderfulConfusionPurityPoolOld FashionedJumpingTrance Author:Barry Hannah