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" Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Last
How
Hawaii
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" 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. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Perfect
Bag
Day
" One of the things I'm fascinated by as a traveler is watching how different countries control how they let the world encounter them. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Different
Control
How
" 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. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Help
Black
Simple
" We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Losing
Battle
Living
" I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Friends
Always
Really
" Where most of the country is, well, hot - from the bone-baking dry heat of the desert to the flesh-melting humidity of Kerala in the south - Kashmir is cool: so cool, in fact, that in the winter, the temperatures can sink to sub-zero. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Winter
Hot
Cool
" I was born in L.A., then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to New York, then we moved to Baltimore, then we moved to California, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to Texas, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to California. This was before I was 17. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Born
New York
California
" The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Who
Book
Difference
" Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Hat
You
Phone
" Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Kashmir
India
Imagination
" Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Life
New
Way
" The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Mother
Speed
Never
" If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Location
Knew
You
" We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Little
Nothing
Because
" I wrote my second novel, 'A Little Life,' in what I still think of as a fever dream: For 18 months, I was unable to properly concentrate on anything else. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Fever
Think
Anything
" When you have very lax parents, you tend to get more conservative kids. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Conservative
Kids
More
" 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. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Live
Door
Step
" In Mumbai, the air is saltier. The sea is roilier. The traffic is snarlier. The pinks are pinker. The ostentation is crazier. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Air
Mumbai
Sea
" The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Milk
Fresh
Restaurant
" 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. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Two
Fall
Three
" 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. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Think
Beyond
Genius
" I wanted to write a story about colonization and about Hawaii. I went to college right at the height of identity politics, and that's how I always read 'The Tempest,' for example. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Story
College
Identity
" I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Character
Writing
Think
" 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. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Seafood
Love
Flowers
" When you write a novel, you never have to be in the service of the reader. My only concern with my books is that the world that's created be as logical and whole as possible. "
Hanya Yanagihara
You
Never
Possible
" I took a 51 day trip through Asia; 12 countries and 26 cities. I traveled for 51 days. So, it was everywhere from Sri Lanka and that all the way to Japan, where we ended it. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Traveled
Way
Day
" We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Culture
Moment
Respect
" I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Better
Far
Insecure
" Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit in that assault. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Photography
Lot
Kind
" So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Fun
Like
Words