We're not the best about knowing what's the most interesting about ourselves. — Jenny Zhang About Copy Share Image
“Another scar that faded enough to be just another mark we carried.” — Jenny Zhang Scar Copy Share Image
The 'New York Times' is not reviewing books by non-white people. — Jenny Zhang Books Copy Share Image
In my mind, scatological writing is a core of the English canon. — Jenny Zhang Canon Copy Share Image
I don't think I can ever write about young kids anymore. I completely shot my wad there. — Jenny Zhang About 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 Acceptance 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 Coalition 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
As you get older, you realize you're only the protagonist in your own story and a blip in someone else's life. — Jenny Zhang Life Copy Share Image
Whenever I passed by a Chinese restaurant in a car, I'd joke to my friends, 'Oh yeah, my uncle owns that place.' — Jenny Zhang Car 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
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
For a decade, Emma-Lee Moss has been steadily making weird, moody, melancholic music under the moniker 'Emmy the Great' that has been… — Jenny Zhang Emmy 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
I really had to develop a core. I had to figure out, at my core as a writer, what did I value?… — Jenny Zhang Develop 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 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
Early in my life, without any supporting evidence, I fretted over what I believed was my fate: accidentally becoming an international pop… — Jenny Zhang Diary Copy Share Image
Growing up in America, I experienced two puberties. The first opened me up to the possibilities of adulthood. The second reinforced that… — Jenny Zhang Adulthood Copy Share Image
I think Lena Dunham, the public figure, is - I hate the word 'brand,' but I'm going to use it - it's… — Jenny Zhang Hate 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 Feel Copy Share Image
“Why did my mother, a grown woman, get to talk like all her hopes and dreams had been shat on, kicked, and… — Jenny Zhang Achievement Copy Share Image
With nonfiction, I had to learn how to be a clear communicator, but it was also a relief to be able to… — Jenny Zhang Asking questions Copy Share Image
My mother had two unshakable beliefs that she tried to drill into me. The first was that I had to study and… — Jenny Zhang Dreams Copy Share Image
Karaoke was my family's happy secret. In those early years in America, like many immigrants, my parents struggled with poverty and loneliness,… — Jenny Zhang Family 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 Asian Copy Share Image
I went to school in California, at Stanford when I was seventeen, and I lived in San Francisco until I was twenty-three,… — Jenny Zhang California 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
“Didn't it bother him that he was teaching his students poetry when he was certain it wouldn't make a difference in how… — Jenny Zhang Poetry 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
'Alphabet' by the late Danish poet Inger Christensen. It's a book-length abecedarian poem. It's an activist text but also a portal to… — Jenny Zhang Alphabet Copy Share Image
Sometimes I worry that people who read my fiction think that I am making some kind of thesis statement. — Jenny Zhang Fiction Copy Share Image
I lived so completely in my mind - a place of unchecked delusion and complete fantasy! — Jenny Zhang Delusion 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… — Jenny Zhang American 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
One of the founding tenets of racism: a society that will never allow white people to think that because they are white,… — Jenny Zhang Never 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 Always Copy Share Image
