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
best fiction truth writer
The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.
beauty
The beauty of cinema is that it can do some things that novels just can't.
goes paddling people work
People go surfing before work and paddling afterward. My husband is from Wisconsin, and he goes to work in his Hawaiian shirt.
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.
love people speaks
It's useless to criticize things that people love and something that speaks to them.
I'm proud of being from Hawaii, and I'm proud of being Hawaiian, but I'm more than that, too.
experience life time
I try to think of it not as writer's block, but a time where you just need to live life and experience things so you have something to write about.
highly love taken
I love film and have taken a stab at a screenplay. I love writing dialogue and found it highly enjoyable.
time work
I like to work out every day, so that takes up some time.
becomes experience felt novelist typical
I felt like I haven't had the typical experience of a novelist whose book becomes a movie.
grew
I always felt a little bit of an outsider, especially because I grew up on Oahu.
points
Hawaii is so complex; there are so many points of view, and there are so many experiences to see and to find.
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.
coast developed resort
Disney's Aulani Resort has really developed the southwest coast of Oahu and led to it getting more attention.