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
I don't think I can ever write about young kids anymore. I completely shot my wad there. — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
Faced with ostracization at school and confinement at home, I turned to karaoke. — Jenny Zhang Confinement 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 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
“It wasn't fair I had to be me for as long as I lived while other people got to be other people.” — 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
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
I like to keep a book underneath the pillow that I'm not sleeping on so I can reach over and grab it… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
The historical legacy of 'The Best American Poetry' is they've had very few editors who were not white. They've had very few… — Jenny Zhang 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
Michael Derrick Hudson is not the first person to slip into the identity of a person of color to give himself some… — Jenny Zhang First person Copy Share Image
Poetry was my dirty little secret when I was a fiction writer at Iowa, and then fiction became my dirty little secret… — Jenny Zhang 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 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 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
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
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 seem to be drawn to these smaller forms, and I seem to be drawn to things that can be written and… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
I know I am not the first woman to ask this, but how can I be both damaged and loveable? How do… — 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… — Jenny Zhang 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 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 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
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 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
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 hadn't ever worked with an 'editor' until I was 26 - although that could be partly chalked up to the MFA… — Jenny Zhang Audience 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
It's very Western to idealize a kind of love that does not come with any expectations, that still permits both the giver… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
“They were a sign of patronage, a sign of having so much money that it had to be squandered on objects with… — Jenny Zhang Art Copy Share Image
The reader who likes my stories, I think they would see the violence on the surface, but I think they would also… — Jenny Zhang Books Copy Share Image
There's so much of our behavior that kind of curdles and hardens as we get into adulthood, and it becomes so much… — Jenny Zhang Adulthood 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
Even when I speak English to my parents, I'll say an English word differently to my Chinese parents and friends than I… — Jenny Zhang 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
From its very inception, Lenny Letter set out to create a supportive, positive, inclusive space on the Internet that does not shy… — Jenny Zhang 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 Copy Share Image
