Best quotes by Hanya Yanagihara on Life

Checkout quotes by Hanya Yanagihara on Life

• ‟ Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.

  - Hanya Yanagihara
  

• ‟ I wrote my second novel, 'A Little Life,' in what I still think of as a fever dream: For 18 months, I was unable to properly concentrate on anything else.

  - Hanya Yanagihara
  

• ‟ 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
  

• ‟ 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.

  - Hanya Yanagihara
  

• ‟ What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.

  - Hanya Yanagihara
  

• ‟ Be aware of who in your life is actually interested in hearing you discuss your writing, and who's just asking to be polite. Listening to writers talk about their work is often excruciatingly dull.

  - Hanya Yanagihara
  

• ‟ The nice thing about publishing later in life is that you already know who you are. You don't have to hang out with the 'Paris Review' crowd to try to make yourself feel like a legitimate writer.

  - Hanya Yanagihara