Hanya Yanagihara
Hanya Yanagihara
Hanya Yanagihara is an American novelist and travel writer of Hawaiian ancestry...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
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I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.
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I think Bhutanese food - long dissed by every food writer out there - has gotten a bum rap.
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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 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.
I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
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Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping.
friendship
Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.
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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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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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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.
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In a basic sense, 'A Little Life' is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It's a different version of adulthood, but it's no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else's.
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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.
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When we think of India, most of us are in fact thinking of Rajasthan, that large splotch of dun-colored desert in the country's northwest which, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, was ruled by a succession of maharajas whose sense of color, opulence, and splendor created the most enduring images of India in the West.
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There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.