Hanya Yanagihara Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• I wanted to write about the time when science became modern, around the 1950s. Right after physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, science started being so politicized and used as such a political weapon. When my father, who is a scientist, tells me about those years, I get a competing portrait of people who were expected to behave normally and be decent respectable members of society and who were also allowed this freedom to think in big and expansive ways. Now, when you think about people who work in labs, they're allowed to be socially inept in a very fundamental way.

  Hanya Yanagihara

  Father, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My father collected turtles when he was young. My parent's wedding album, there's two pictures of them getting married and the rest are just pictures of turtles. I remember they had Galapagos tortoises that they had somehow imported illegally and a bunch of other turtles too. I like the animals themselves. They're so self-possessed and self-contained and there's something wise and mysterious about them. I also like that they are prehistoric animals.

  Hanya Yanagihara

  Wise, Father, Animal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I credit my parents for many things that had never seemed remarkable when I was growing up, and one of those things is how nonthreatened they were by my constant search for backup parents - other mothers and fathers would have bristled at this, but they never did. So I was always looking for other parental stand-ins, and I always found them.

  Hanya Yanagihara

  Mother, Growing Up, Father

  Source: www.believermag.com

• I was fortunate because I had parents who believed that being a writer was a perfectly acceptable thing to want to be. They'd actually hoped that I might be an artist, and I was lucky again to grow up with people who delighted in making things: my father wove baskets and painted furniture and carved wood figures; my mother quilted and embroidered and sewed.

  Hanya Yanagihara

  Mother, Growing Up, Father

  Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

• 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; to arrange your estate - and the ones in which you get to choose, or at least have some knowledge of, how and when it might happen. One can't elude death, but one can have a good death.

  Hanya Yanagihara

  Father, Plenty

  Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

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