Hanya Yanagihara
Hanya Yanagihara
Hanya Yanagihara is an American novelist and travel writer of Hawaiian ancestry...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
cool country dry heat hot sink south
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.
consider devalued friendship gets move partner people relationship
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.
In Mumbai, the air is saltier. The sea is roilier. The traffic is snarlier. The pinks are pinker. The ostentation is crazier.
forced gift great hope interior nature people work worry
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.
found fulfilling life relationship simply
What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.
science writer
The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.
parts putting
So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.