When you write a novel, you never have to be in the service of the reader. My only concern with my books is that the world that's created be as logical and whole as possible.
From Hanya Yanagihara
So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.
I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.
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.
One of the things I'm fascinated by as a traveler is watching how different countries control how they let the world encounter them.
We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.
The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.
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.
I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
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