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
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
When you're 21 you think, "Old people sound like this. Old people think like this." I don't think my ideas about aging… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
I was fortunate because I had parents who believed that being a writer was a perfectly acceptable thing to want to be.… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
There are times I wish I didn't have a job, even though I love my job: I get to work with interesting,… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about the time when science became modern, around the 1950s. Right after physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, science started… — 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
I think I'm a reporter's editor. Being a good reporter is a specific skill, one I admire and don't possess myself -… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to be at that school in an era in which encounters between students and teachers were encouraged; there were… — 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
Many writers write across difference of one kind or another. Sometimes the difference is large and recognizable: gender, or race, or religion,… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
I've never really understood the desire to be immortal myself. The idea of both wanting to live forever in some form and… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
Witing is essentially interior work, and many writers are interior personalities. Having a job forces you out of the world of your… — 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
