“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.” ThinkingKnowsWritingBelieveIdeasCreativeWorstStudentsTerribleMetsMajorsCreative WritingBad IdeasUndergraduate Author:Barry Hannah
“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.” IfsThinkingFirstsTwoBeautifulThreeTroubleDrinkSay AnythingLiberatingHang In There Author:Barry Hannah
“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.” ThinkingGivingWritingWellsTwoDifferentEssentialsMusic IsMusicalSentencesMediumsPhrases Author:Barry Hannah
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingSeemsEarthComedyInvolvedSolveCeaseUselessDamnUnhappinessAgonyToilDamn Things Author:Barry Hannah
