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" Of course, no one has enough time to see every shop that Mumbai has: That would take more lifetimes than even the gods could offer. "
Hanya Yanagihara
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" 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
" 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. "
Hanya Yanagihara
India
Rich
People
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Think
Writing
True
" 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
" 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
" No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Focused
Spring
Color
" I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Road
Cultures
See
" When you have very lax parents, you tend to get more conservative kids. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Conservative
Kids
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" Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Life
New
Way
" What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Relationship
Found
Group
" Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Unhappiness
Death
End
" I think that all research scientists think of themselves as belonging to a grand tradition, building on work that has been worked on since the very beginning of science itself. Whereas I'm not sure writers think of themselves in the same way. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Work
Beginning
Science
" Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Hope
Work
Nature
" 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. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Bag
Weekend
Skills
" 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. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Fall
Long
Know
" 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
" I think fiction writers should work. If you have a job and are not living off advances or grants, you never have to make concessions in your writing, ever. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Writing
Living
Job
" 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
" 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
" If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Location
Knew
You
" 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. "
Hanya Yanagihara
You
Writing
Work
" There comes a point when you're writing a novel when you're in it so deep that the life of the novel becomes more real to you than life itself. You have to write your way out of it; once you're there, it's too late to abandon. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Late
Writing
You
" 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
" 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. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Complexity
Room
Retail
" 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
" I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Think
People
Friendship
" I think Bhutanese food - long dissed by every food writer out there - has gotten a bum rap. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Food
Long
Writer
" Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Relationships
You
Friendship