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" I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Friends
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" I was interested about how relationships change as you get older. You are great friends in your 20s. In your 30s, you get married. Your 40s are all about your kids. In your 50s, you get divorced, and your friendships become primary again. "
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" What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others. "
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" 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. "
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" One of the things I'm fascinated by as a traveler is watching how different countries control how they let the world encounter them. "
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" 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. "
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" Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant. "
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" One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them. "
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" Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit. "
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" It's a funny thing about cities: Some have brief, bright moments of cultural and political dominance, decades- or centuries-long spells when they seem the center of their particular nation, or region, or empire... only to later fall into obscurity and disrepair, never to regain their former glory. "
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" 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. "
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" Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life. "
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" I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world. "
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" 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. "
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" When you have very lax parents, you tend to get more conservative kids. "
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" I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics. "
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" So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down. "
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" The original Grand Tour would generally begin in Belgium or the Netherlands before moving through Paris, Geneva, Spain, Italy, and perhaps Greece. "
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" What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part. "
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" When we think of India, most of us are in fact thinking of Rajasthan, that large splotch of dun-colored desert in the country's northwest which, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, was ruled by a succession of maharajas whose sense of color, opulence, and splendor created the most enduring images of India in the West. "
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" The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty. "
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" We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there. "
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" Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them. "
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" Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway. "
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" There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy. "
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