What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.

- Barry Hannah

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

- Barry Hannah

Literature is the history of the soul.

- Barry Hannah

Professional Southerners sicken me.

- Barry Hannah

You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.

- 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 imp…

- Barry Hannah

The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.

- Barry Hannah

Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.

- Barry Hannah

I do believe that as you write more and age, the arrogance and most of the vanity goes. Or it is a vanity met with vast gratitude, that you were hit …

- Barry Hannah