I have a sustained interest in frippery. I can't refute the monster accusation, either. Some writers are awful on the page and… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
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… — 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
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
When you're young, your perception of what it means to be a writer is often less about the writing and more about… — 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
I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends. The process of being a writer is much… — 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
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 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
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
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
When you don't have to depend upon your creative work for money, you'll never really have to compromise... Knowing that is hugely… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
As with editing, I think my strength as a writer is structure. It's not a skill that's much discussed when we discuss… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
I know I'm a better editor than I was when I began, twenty years ago. I'm less scared of the text, I'm… — 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
“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
