I grew up in a Chinese American enclave where the person who lived down the street had literally lived down the street… — Jenny Zhang American Copy Share Image
I think it was really important for me before I 'debuted myself' in front of the world to have a private life… — Jenny Zhang Find Copy Share Image
When it comes to love, maturity often gets a bad rap - second love is boring; it's practical. It's what our parents… — Jenny Zhang Bad Copy Share Image
I seem to be drawn to these smaller forms, and I seem to be drawn to things that can be written and… — Jenny Zhang Drawn Copy Share Image
Asian American success is often presented as something of a horror - robotic, unfeeling machines psychotically hellbent on excelling, products of abusive… — Jenny Zhang American Copy Share Image
When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more… — Jenny Zhang American Copy Share Image
We lived in one of those half-basement apartments, and on our first night of being in America, someone reached through the grate… — Jenny Zhang America 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 Anything Copy Share Image
My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still… — Jenny Zhang Education Copy Share Image
I still catch myself trying to become the object someone imagines me to be, but then there are other times, when I… — Jenny Zhang Free Copy Share Image
How do we form a coalition of resistance without obliterating our differences? Not all lives matter, and we are not all the… — Jenny Zhang Differences Copy Share Image
It's like a weird mindset to wake up and want to be wanted. Like, I want to be wanted so much already...… — Jenny Zhang Control Copy Share Image
Does self-acceptance ultimately require another person, or is there a kind of love that does not dabble in the dream of a… — Jenny Zhang Dream Copy Share Image
It's okay if someone is disgusted or offended by my performance. It's just a performance. — Jenny Zhang Disgusted 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 People Copy Share Image
If you were to make a quick judgment call on my intelligence and articulation when I first moved to the U.S. based… — Jenny Zhang Intelligence Copy Share Image
When I was an undergrad at Stanford, there was a girl named Jennie Kim who worked for the school newspaper. Sometimes people… — Jenny Zhang Girl Copy Share Image
I often wonder if my being a fairly small Asian woman with a high-pitched quietish voice plays a role in how often… — Jenny Zhang Come Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to the figure of the ungrateful subaltern as a trope in literature. In real life, it is often dangerous to… — Jenny Zhang Books Copy Share Image
Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, who founded Lenny Books together, also happen to have exquisite reading tastes - from obscure small press… — Jenny Zhang Books Copy Share Image
“It was my mother who tucked him in and told him that there exists a sort of love in the world that… — Jenny Zhang Children Copy Share Image
As a child, I would go days without speaking, and then suddenly I would scream until everyone was looking at me. — Jenny Zhang Children 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 Books Copy Share Image
We're not the best about knowing what's the most interesting about ourselves. — Jenny Zhang About Copy Share Image
