Quotes from Kaui Hart Hemmings

I like to add props to render the specificities of place - paintings, food, clothing, signs, infrastructure, music, sayings and slang particular to the region and particular to the character. And props shouldn't just sit there; they should get used.

After college, I moved to Breckenridge, Colorado, and went snowboarding every day. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew what I didn't want to do. So I applied to grad school for writing, and I just gave it a shot and took it from there.

I'm sorry, I say. I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.

Jonathan Franzen seems like the grumpiest guy, and he doesn't seem to like much of anything, so I really don't care what he has to say.

The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.

The beauty of cinema is that it can do some things that novels just can't.

That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.

Disney's Aulani Resort has really developed the southwest coast of Oahu and led to it getting more attention.

I felt like I haven't had the typical experience of a novelist whose book becomes a movie.

I've never gone back to the stacks after my book's expiration at the front of the store. Not because I'm above it or anything, but I'd be mortified if someone caught me looking for my own book.

It's useless to criticize things that people love and something that speaks to them.

I always felt a little bit of an outsider, especially because I grew up on Oahu.

I wasn't creative enough to imagine my first novel becoming a film directed by Alexander Payne. Nor did I consider the possibility of seeing Hollywood stars moving through my personal version of Hanalei town: going to Tahiti Nui, rehearsing a scene in front of my cousin's cottages, driving the snaky roads.

Hawaii is so complex; there are so many points of view, and there are so many experiences to see and to find.

Thats how you know you love someone, I guess, when you cant experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.