Hanya Yanagihara Quotes

That's one good thing about the way life is, that no one can know you if you don't let them.

I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

I don't know... I don't want people to know everything about me.

I'm not a big fan of people knowing too much about me.

With things in my personal life, if I talk about it, it doesn't stay personal.

I find sharing intimate details with people that you don't know an interesting concept. I like to keep some things to myself.

Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.

I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.

I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

I think having a private life that you only share with your nearest and dearest is important. Otherwise, who are you?

We're very private people and we tend to write about our relationships but keep the actual details close to our chests.

I don't want people to know everything about me.

I'm very private about my private life. I don't like to go into too much depth about it.

It's good to have a little distance. If you discuss your love too much, it just damages it.

Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.

This intimacy is not necessary; no one is compelling me to open my inmost self and lay it naked, undefended, against that of another – merely for the joy of the communion.

And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.

I think you can decide how much of yourself you're willing to make public.

God forbid we keep a couple secrets in this day and age!

People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.

We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.

I had this thing about not giving too much of myself away, so I thought, if I sang lyrics, that's giving too much away. You know, I really didn't want to give myself away.

I've learned the hard way how valuable privacy is. And I've learned that there are a lot of things in your life that really benefit from being private. And relationships are one of them.

Relationships or not, I believe that people don't need to know about my life beyond a certain point.

Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.