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Checkout quotes by Hanya Yanagihara on Work

• ‟ I think fiction writers should work. If you have a job and are not living off advances or grants, you never have to make concessions in your writing, ever.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I think that all research scientists think of themselves as belonging to a grand tradition, building on work that has been worked on since the very beginning of science itself. Whereas I'm not sure writers think of themselves in the same way.

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• ‟ I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.

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• ‟ Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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