Jenny Zhang Quotes

Jenny Zhang

Profession : Actress

Birth : June 22, 1987

I don't think I can ever write about young kids anymore. I completely shot my wad there.

Jenny Zhang

The reader who likes my stories, I think they would see the violence on the surface, but I think they would also see a deeper violence - the one that's not as showy or as immediately arresting, but kind of the more unsolvable violence that lurks underneath.

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

I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think that having actual parents who lived through the Cultural Revolution who are also interested in literature, they're also very attuned to those moments.

Jenny Zhang

In my mind, scatological writing is a core of the English canon.

Jenny Zhang

Early in my life, without any supporting evidence, I fretted over what I believed was my fate: accidentally becoming an international pop star. The pages of my diary were filled with hypothetical ethical dilemmas.

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While I was growing up in Flushing, Queens, we socialized exclusively with other Chinese immigrants. I was forbidden to make contact with nonapproved, non-Chinese peers outside school. That was fine with me.

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Faced with ostracization at school and confinement at home, I turned to karaoke.

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Coming out of the closet doesn't always mean liberation.

Jenny Zhang

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

The historical legacy of 'The Best American Poetry' is they've had very few editors who were not white. They've had very few instances where they've selected poems by non-white poets.

Jenny Zhang

Michael Derrick Hudson is not the first person to slip into the identity of a person of color to give himself some perceived advantage. He can slip back into his life and not walk around in this world as a person of color who endures racism.

Jenny Zhang

It's weird for me to say I'm lucky when I can't go into a bookstore and have more than five choices if I want to read something about Asian-American characters.

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The 'New York Times' is not reviewing books by non-white people.

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

Rage can be so common it turns ambient.

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, when I am fluent, when I am unimaginable, that I start to feel like somewhere out there is the decolonized love for me, somewhere out there, there is a love that doesn't let any of us be so lonely.

Jenny Zhang