It is always sort of unnerving to hear from people who've read my books. I'm not reading any of the reviews and… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
When you never leave the literary biosphere, you forget how few people actually read books, and that in turn makes you start… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
There are some writers who also enjoy being authors, and are good at it as well. There is nothing performative about writing,… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“It was the worst--the bleakest, the most physically exhausting, the most emotionally enervating--writing experience I'd had...I felt, and feared, that the book… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“After he had eaten, he went downstairs with the book and sandwich and lay in bed, and he was reminded of how… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
When you want to be a writer, you think that actually getting published will make you feel somehow more real to yourself.… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
Many writers hate the shilling process, and I understand that. However, it's really the only thing about the publication process you can… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
Now, almost twenty years since my last job in book publishing, I know that there are far more socially inept people in… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
Does people not asking me about Asian American literature mean they don't see it as its own literary tradition? I certainly believe… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“People who don’t love math always accuse mathematicians of trying to make math complicated,” Dr. Li had said. “But anyone who does love math… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“At night, as beneath him his parents completed their routines, the banging of the old pipes as they washed their faces and the sudden… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
To be a scientist you have to be willing to live with uncertainty for a long time. Research scientists begin with a question and… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better?” — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“But fairness is not the only, or even the most important, consideration in law: the law is not always fair. Contracts are not fair,… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“I would hold him in my arms and wait to cross the street and would think how absurd it was that my child, that… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“my father said the whole world seemed made of sound and nothing else.” — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“He cleaned so he wouldn't cut himself, because he was cutting himself so much that even he knew how crazy, how destructive he was… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“There was something scary and anxiety-inducing about being in a space where nothing seemed to be forbidden to him, where everything was offered to… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
The big characters who occupy science, especially modern science, are all "off" in fundamental ways. I don't think that genius goes hand in hand… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I would have to take my glasses off simply so the world would smudge and recede for a moment and cease to seem… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
