Kaui Hart Hemmings
Kaui Hart Hemmings
Kaui Hart Hemmings is an American writer who was born and raised in Hawaii. She attended Colorado College and graduated in 1998. Her debut novel The Descendants was adapted by Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash into the highly acclaimed 2011 American film The Descendants, starring George Clooney...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
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I wasn't creative enough to imagine my first novel becoming a film directed by Alexander Payne. Nor did I consider the possibility of seeing Hollywood stars moving through my personal version of Hanalei town: going to Tahiti Nui, rehearsing a scene in front of my cousin's cottages, driving the snaky roads.
i-miss-you missing-someone wish
That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.
goodbye running jobs
A sea of red lights, and I slow down. My job now is to gather everyone together and tell them we have to let her go. I won't tell anyone over the phone, because I didn't like hearing the news from the doctor that way. I have maybe a week to handle the arrangements, as the doctor said, but the arrangements are overwhelming. How do I learn how to run a family? How do I say goodbye to someone I love so much that I've forgotten just how much I love her?
heads work
Especially when I write, I want to get out of people's heads and have them speak and have them get dressed and have them go to work.
points
Hawaii is so complex; there are so many points of view, and there are so many experiences to see and to find.
highly love taken
I love film and have taken a stab at a screenplay. I love writing dialogue and found it highly enjoyable.
jonathan
Jonathan Franzen seems like the grumpiest guy, and he doesn't seem to like much of anything, so I really don't care what he has to say.
crave
When you're a child, you crave formal recognition; you crave ceremony, celebration, certification of proof.
applied gave grad knew moved school shot took
After college, I moved to Breckenridge, Colorado, and went snowboarding every day. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew what I didn't want to do. So I applied to grad school for writing, and I just gave it a shot and took it from there.
closer freely good
Writing has never been like therapy for me, but blogging comes a little closer - I can smack-talk freely and frequently, and this is good for me.