What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others. Hanya Yanagihara findfulfillgroup Change image and share on social
There comes a point when you're writing a novel when you're in it so deep that the life of the novel becomes more real to you than life itself. You have to write your way out of it; once you're there, it's too late to abandon. Hanya Yanagihara abandondeeplate share on social
My father was a research doctor at the National Institutes of Health in the early 1980s, and you couldn't work in the field and not know about D. Carleton Gajdusek, who my father often mentioned. Hanya Yanagihara 1980scarletondoctor Change image and share on social
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 bearconvictionearth share on social
Anyone who has been to India - specifically Rajasthan, the rich and kingly region in the country's northwest - knows that when it comes to adornment, Indians do not think like other people. Hanya Yanagihara adornmentcountryindia Change image and share on social
The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary. Hanya Yanagihara interiorprocessreactionary Change image and share on social
Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination. Hanya Yanagihara 000imaginationindia Change image and share on social
When you have very lax parents, you tend to get more conservative kids. Hanya Yanagihara conservativekidlax Change image and share on social
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. Hanya Yanagihara caretroubleurgent Change image and share on social
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. Hanya Yanagihara artistassaultassaulter Change image and share on social
