“I think fiction writers should work. If you have a job and are not liv...” — Hanya Yanagihara Quote

“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.”

“When he had promised himself that he wouldn't try to repair Jude, he had forgotten that to solve someone is to want to repair them: to diagnose a problem and then not try to fix that problem seemed not only neglectful but immoral.”

“What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.”

“Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.”

“Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.”

“The best science frequently combines an awareness of broad and significant problems with focus on an apparently small issue or detail that someone very much wants to solve or understand. Sometimes these little problems or inconsistencies turn out to be the clues to big advances.”