Writer Quotes by Hanya Yanagihara

9 Writer quotes by Hanya Yanagihara

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Hanya Yanagihara’s thoughts on the writer’s craft come in nine succinct statements, reflecting her focus on intimate human experience. These excerpts offer a short, poignant window into how she values vulnerability in storytelling.

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There are some writers who also enjoy being authors, and are good at it as well. There is nothing performative about writing,…

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When you never leave the literary biosphere, you forget how few people actually read books, and that in turn makes you start…

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I'm an indulgent writer - I'm not sure, however, that's something I'm interested in changing. Writing should be indulgent: you should take…

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Sometimes the most difficult thing you can do as an editor is not make a single note - the idea that everything…

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Witing is essentially interior work, and many writers are interior personalities. Having a job forces you out of the world of your…

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Much of an editor's job is in fact pretty nanny-like in nature: in many ways, you're there to protect and defend, to…

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When you want to be a writer, you think that actually getting published will make you feel somehow more real to yourself.…

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When you're young, your perception of what it means to be a writer is often less about the writing and more about…

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Many writers hate the shilling process, and I understand that. However, it's really the only thing about the publication process you can…

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“But fairness is not the only, or even the most important, consideration in law: the law is not always fair. Contracts are not fair,…

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“I would hold him in my arms and wait to cross the street and would think how absurd it was that my child, that…

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“The easiest explanations are often the right ones.”

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“my father said the whole world seemed made of sound and nothing else.”

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“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…

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“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…

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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…

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“Sometimes I would have to take my glasses off simply so the world would smudge and recede for a moment and cease to seem…

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I credit my parents for many things that had never seemed remarkable when I was growing up, and one of those things is how…

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I have one friend to whom I've told more than I've ever told anyone, and yet there are significant territories I have and will…

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“If you keep trying to find everything, you’ll wind up with nothing. AMY:”

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