Sometimes I worry that people who read my fiction think that I am making some kind of thesis statement. — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
White people have always slipped in and out of the experiences of people of color and been praised extravagantly for it. — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
People who have very devastating lives sometimes have the most wild, avant-garde humor. It's like when you've seen it all and been… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
Growing up, I had a face that people wanted to tell things to, and I grew up with adults who had so… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
Of course I want the things I write to reflect well on me or anyone who might feel represented by me, but… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
That's what people expect: They don't want to read a slight novel. People don't want to waste their time on anything less… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
One of the founding tenets of racism: a society that will never allow white people to think that because they are white,… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
I just submitted what I had to the 'Octopus Books' contest open reading period, and they said they wanted to publish my… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
As I got older, I realised that people saw me as other things - sometimes Korean, sometimes Japanese, sometimes just Asian. When… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
I grew up in a Chinese American enclave where the person who lived down the street had literally lived down the street from my… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share
I think it was really important for me before I 'debuted myself' in front of the world to have a private life with my… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share
When it comes to love, maturity often gets a bad rap - second love is boring; it's practical. It's what our parents feel for… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share
I seem to be drawn to these smaller forms, and I seem to be drawn to things that can be written and also read… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share
Asian American success is often presented as something of a horror - robotic, unfeeling machines psychotically hellbent on excelling, products of abusive tiger parenting… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share
When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more universal stories.'… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share
We lived in one of those half-basement apartments, and on our first night of being in America, someone reached through the grate that protects… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share
That's what people expect: They don't want to read a slight novel. People don't want to waste their time on anything less than 'great.' — Jenny Zhang Copy Share
My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still find myself… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share
I still catch myself trying to become the object someone imagines me to be, but then there are other times, when I am free,… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share
How do we form a coalition of resistance without obliterating our differences? Not all lives matter, and we are not all the same immigrants. — Jenny Zhang Copy Share
It's like a weird mindset to wake up and want to be wanted. Like, I want to be wanted so much already... and I'm… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share
Does self-acceptance ultimately require another person, or is there a kind of love that does not dabble in the dream of a perfect twinship? — Jenny Zhang Copy Share
It's okay if someone is disgusted or offended by my performance. It's just a performance. — Jenny Zhang Copy Share
