Books Quote by Jenny Zhang

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

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

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

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

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

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

I wish it wasn't so natural for me to dwell on the past.

— Jenny Zhang

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

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

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

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

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