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.
— Barry Hannah, The Art of Fiction No. 184, interviewed by Lacey Galbraith, Paris Review (Winter 2004)
Barry Hannah. Photograph: Erica Larsen.