I know I'm a better editor than I was when I began, twenty years ago. I'm less scared of the text, I'm less scared of the writer, and, crucially, I no longer believe that I have to leave my mark on every story.
We're living in a literary age, at least in America, that is marked by a sense of distance, a coolness, in all senses of that word. To be too obvious… - Hanya Yanagihara
We're living in a literary age, at least in America, that is marked by a sense of distance, a coolness, in all senses of that word. To be too obvious…
- Hanya Yanagihara
There are some writers who also enjoy being authors, and are good at it as well. There is nothing performative about writing, but there is about bein… - Hanya Yanagihara
There are some writers who also enjoy being authors, and are good at it as well. There is nothing performative about writing, but there is about bein…
I have a sustained interest in frippery. I can't refute the monster accusation, either. Some writers are awful on the page and kind in person. More o… - Hanya Yanagihara
I have a sustained interest in frippery. I can't refute the monster accusation, either. Some writers are awful on the page and kind in person. More o…
I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends. The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist… - Hanya Yanagihara
I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends. The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist…
If you start asking how do we make life meaningful and life never ends, then you get into sort of these terrible sort of metaphysical quandaries and … - Hanya Yanagihara
If you start asking how do we make life meaningful and life never ends, then you get into sort of these terrible sort of metaphysical quandaries and …
In the 1950s that tug-of-war between the expectations of behaving normally and the limitlessness of thinking freely produces some very strange charac… - Hanya Yanagihara
In the 1950s that tug-of-war between the expectations of behaving normally and the limitlessness of thinking freely produces some very strange charac…
Of death, my father has always said that the best conditions are the ones in which you have plenty of time to prepare - to say what you need to say; … - Hanya Yanagihara
Of death, my father has always said that the best conditions are the ones in which you have plenty of time to prepare - to say what you need to say; …
When you want to be a writer, you think that actually getting published will make you feel somehow more real to yourself. But it doesn't. And nor sho… - Hanya Yanagihara
When you want to be a writer, you think that actually getting published will make you feel somehow more real to yourself. But it doesn't. And nor sho…
Many writers write across difference of one kind or another. Sometimes the difference is large and recognizable: gender, or race, or religion, or sex… - Hanya Yanagihara
Many writers write across difference of one kind or another. Sometimes the difference is large and recognizable: gender, or race, or religion, or sex…
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