Hanya Yanagihara
Hanya Yanagihara
Hanya Yanagihara is an American novelist and travel writer of Hawaiian ancestry...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
might novelist suspected
I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.
although common fact form larger literary novelists sort whether
I do have the sense that, although there may be no one way to write a novel, there are many novelists who are in fact part of some sort of larger literary community, whether in the form of a writing group or an MFA program, to name two of the more common forms.
born moved
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.
writers written
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.
advances job work writers
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.
complicit viewer
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.
change great interested primary relationships
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.
fever life properly second unable wrote
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.
lifetimes mumbai shop time
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.
roughly
Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.
interested love passed politics
I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.
bum food gotten
I think Bhutanese food - long dissed by every food writer out there - has gotten a bum rap.
fiction fits goes interior itself presented work
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.
amazing cool food kong plenty
Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping.