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" When you have very lax parents, you tend to get more conservative kids. "
Hanya Yanagihara
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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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" 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. "
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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 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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" I think at first I didn't tell anyone I was writing something because I found so tedious the people who did. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Paris
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" I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person. "
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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. "
Hanya Yanagihara
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" If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Location
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" 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
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" 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
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" 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 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
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" The nice thing about publishing later in life is that you already know who you are. You don't have to hang out with the 'Paris Review' crowd to try to make yourself feel like a legitimate writer. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Know
Life
You
" Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Rich
Italy
Milan
" Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Work
People
Society
" 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
" 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
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" We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Little
Nothing
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" My father was a research doctor at the National Institutes of Health in the early 1980s, and you couldn't work in the field and not know about D. Carleton Gajdusek, who my father often mentioned. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Work
Research
Health
" 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. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Friends
Experience
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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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Great
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" One of the writers I most admire is Hilary Mantel because in the middle of her career, she just changed paths entirely and became just a totally different novelist. "
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Because
Career
Her
" 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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Relationship
Found
Group
" 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. "
Hanya Yanagihara
Sometimes
Care
Me
" 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. "
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Photography
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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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