Barry Hannah

“I am a stranger in my own life.”

“I write to find out what I'm thinking.”

“I do not want to be good. I want to be a writer.”

“Love is a fiend, a torment, a disturbed dream.”

“All of my life I've been a wanderer, but I've been a wanderer with a good heart.”

“God must have a weird sense of humor. He keeps making clowns out of all the brave people.”

“The point is to write a book that is fun to read. The point is to have fun writing it.”

“When you get to the point where you're not having fun, you're probably not writing well.”

“Everything is a test. It's all a test.”

“I did not want to be a story, but a man.”

“My heart is a traitor. It has no loyalty.”

“The past is not a diminishing road, but a branching one.”

“You are not you, you are a limitless sky.”

“Truth is not a matter of fact, but a matter of style.”

“Fiction is the only way I know to tell the truth.”