Top 88 Quotes by Hanya Yanagihara

About Hanya Yanagihara

These are some quotes by American author Hanya Yanagihara Novelist.

In Mumbai, the air is saltier. The sea is roilier. The traffic is snarlier. The pinks are pinker. The ostentation is crazier.

In Mumbai, the air is saltier. The sea is roilier. The traffic is snarlier. The pinks are pinker. The ostentation is crazier.

Hanya Yanagihara

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.

Hanya Yanagihara

It's a funny thing about cities: Some have brief, bright moments of cultural and political dominance, decades- or centuries-long spells when they seem the center of their particular nation, or region, or empire... only to later fall into obscurity and disrepair, never to regain their former glory.

Hanya Yanagihara

One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.

One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.

Hanya Yanagihara

Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.

Hanya Yanagihara

You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.

You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.

Hanya Yanagihara

I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.

I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.

Hanya Yanagihara

Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.

Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.

Hanya Yanagihara

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.

Hanya Yanagihara

Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.

Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.

Hanya Yanagihara

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