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All Quotes by author - Hanya Yanagihara
" Although both of us were raised on Oahu, in Honolulu, my mother has always had fond memories of Maui; this was, after all, where she and my father, then penniless yet oddly optimistic newlyweds, honeymooned in 1969. "
She
Always
Memories
" Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit. "
Last
How
Hawaii
" Anyone who has been to India - specifically Rajasthan, the rich and kingly region in the country's northwest - knows that when it comes to adornment, Indians do not think like other people. "
India
Rich
People
" Be aware of who in your life is actually interested in hearing you discuss your writing, and who's just asking to be polite. Listening to writers talk about their work is often excruciatingly dull. "
You
Writing
Work
" Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses. "
Two
Fall
Three
" Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life. "
Life
New
Way
" Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop. "
Complexity
Room
Retail
" Every traveler knows too well the endless quest for the perfect travel bag: the one that's stylish enough to carry through Paris, sturdy enough to tote around Peru, and - most important - doesn't make your shoulder sag even before you've loaded it up with everything you need for a day of sightseeing. "
Perfect
Bag
Day
" Florence is perhaps best known for being the seat of Renaissance art, and rightly so: A greatest-hits collection of artists passed through its streets - Michelangelo, Leonardo, Botticelli, and Brunelleschi among them. "
Renaissance
Art
Best
" Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party. "
Relationships
You
Friendship
" From 1999 through 2001, I was an editor at a now-defunct magazine about the media industry called 'Brill's Content' that eventually merged with a now-defunct website about the media industry called Inside.com. "
Media
Website
Content
" Go to any Shinto temple in Japan and you'll see it: a simple stand from which hang hundreds of wooden postcard-size plaques with a colorful image on one side and, on the other, densely scribbled Japanese characters in black felt-tip pen, pleas to the gods for help or succor. "
Help
Black
Simple
" Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping. "
Hong Kong
Cool
Food
" I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends. "
Friends
Always
Really
" I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I. "
Better
Far
Insecure
" I do have the sense that, although there may be no one way to write a novel, there are many novelists who are in fact part of some sort of larger literary community, whether in the form of a writing group or an MFA program, to name two of the more common forms. "
Name
Writing
Way
" I don't believe in post-racial or post-gay or post-anything, but I do think within a certain group of friends, what matters less is the specificities of race and sexuality, and what matters more is the shared experience, shared language and shared cultural touch points. "
Friends
Experience
Believe
" I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think. "
Think
Beyond
Genius
" If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all. "
Location
Knew
You
" I go to Japan every November on vacation, and the one thing I never return home without is yuba, which is the thin skin that forms atop boiling soy milk. You skim it off and either eat it fresh or dry it. "
Vacation
Eat
Home
" I have never wanted a family. I don't believe in marriage, though I obviously believe it should be legal for everyone who wants to do it. But it is not something I believe in, nor do the characters in my book, nor do any of my friends. "
Book
Marriage
Family
" I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them. "
Bag
Weekend
Skills
" I live in Soho in lower New York; there's tons and tons of tourists right outside my door step, obviously. Most of them are European, and all of them have guidebooks. I never see anyone looking at a phone. "
Live
Door
Step
" I love how Vietnamese cuisine always tastes like flowers, and how they had the ingenious idea of pairing that floral flavor with seafood: such a combination shouldn't work as well as it does. "
Seafood
Love
Flowers
" In a basic sense, 'A Little Life' is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It's a different version of adulthood, but it's no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else's. "
Past
Life
Friendship
" In Mumbai, the air is saltier. The sea is roilier. The traffic is snarlier. The pinks are pinker. The ostentation is crazier. "
Air
Mumbai
Sea
" In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better. "
Getting Better
Big
American
" I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care. "
Sometimes
Care
Me
" I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner. "
Long
Logic
Goes
" I think at first I didn't tell anyone I was writing something because I found so tedious the people who did. "
Think
Tell
People
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