+ If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren’t really there. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Barry Hannah, Suffering, 0 - Barry Hannah Novelist · USA
+ A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Barry Hannah, Chosen, 0 - Barry Hannah Novelist · USA
+ Literature is the history of the soul. Feraz Zeid, September 7, 2023December 24, 2023, Barry Hannah, Soul, 0 - Barry Hannah Novelist · USA
+ My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Barry Hannah, Concern, Form, Stories, 0 - Barry Hannah Novelist · USA
+ You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Barry Hannah, Hell, Joy, 0 - Barry Hannah Novelist · USA
+ My stories do have plot. They’re not just scattered language; they’re controlled, toward an end. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Barry Hannah, Language, Plot, Stories, 0 - Barry Hannah Novelist · USA
There’s no dew left on the daisies and clover; there’s no rain left in heaven. - Jean Ingelow Poet · England
I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair. - Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Salon hostess · France
We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known. - Francoise Sagan Playwright · France
The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road. Explain - Franz Kafka Writer · Czechia
There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods. - Mary Renault Author · United Kingdom
The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don’t dwell. Explain - Michael Josephson Ethics consultant and speaker
Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another. - Lisa Kleypas Author