31 Jenny Han Quotes for You to Enjoy

Jenny Han

South Korean Author

Born: Sep 3, 1980

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I do end up revealing a lot online, but in books, what I reveal is more tailored. Authors can couch revelations in fiction. With social media, no one wants to watch or read if it doesn't feel authentic, so you end up giving away a lot of yourself. Jenny Han

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Even as a full-grown adult, it can still feel destabilizing when your family goes through changes. Jenny Han

Family Changes Through Adult Feel Still Goes Your Even

I might just be the luckiest girl ever. Jenny Han

Girl Just Be Just Might Luckiest Ever

I always know what time it is. Jenny Han

Time Know Always

It's fairly common to get something optioned but really rare to actually see it become a movie. Jenny Han

Rare Become See Something Fairly Get Common Movie Really Actually

With Asian-Americans actors, specifically, there's been fewer opportunities for them in TV and film and fewer that have the ability to actually make a career out of it. It becomes a bit of a chicken and egg situation, where they're like, 'Oh, but they're not famous names,' but they haven't had a chance to be in anything yet, either. Jenny Han

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The American girl doesn't look just one kind of way - not in 2018, not ever. Jenny Han

Girl Way Kind Look American Just Just One Ever

I think that's what distinguishes YA from adult fiction - it's not just the age of the characters, but it's the sense of hope. Because I don't think I've ever read a YA book that feels completely hopeless at the end. Jenny Han

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College applications are such a huge part of senior year, yet often times you never see characters in books actually do work. Jenny Han

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The books you read as a young person are books that stay with you forever. I think that is the biggest privilege of writing for young people. You feel like you can help shape somebody. Jenny Han

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I think that sometimes we put undue pressure on stories featuring people of color, and I hope we get to a point where it's not such a rarity to see a person of color be the hero of a story, so that it can just be a story and not have to carry so much weight. Jenny Han

I started writing stories at a young age, but not once did it occur to me that I could grow up to be a writer. Who could I look to? My favorite authors were Ann M. Martin and E.L. Konigsburg and Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary and Lois Lowry and Norma Klein. They were all white women, and they seemed so stately to me, so elegant. A whole world away. Jenny Han

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Every choice leads you somewhere, but it might not be where you truly want to be if the decision is based on someone else. It could lead to regrets and what-ifs, but that doesn't mean you wouldn't still have valuable experiences. Jenny Han

Just like Lara Jean in my book 'To All the Boys I've Loved Before,' I used to write letters to boys I was in love with - letters full of emotion and longing and also recrimination - but they were for my eyes only. Jenny Han

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Teenage years are all about crushes: crushes so deep you wanted to inhabit the other person, be inside their skin, see the world through their eyes. Jenny Han

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When I finished 'P.S. I Still Love You,' I truly was done with the series. I kept saying the books were two halves of a heart. But I suppose time and space had made me nostalgic, because my mind kept drifting back to Lara Jean and Peter, wondering what they were up to. Jenny Han

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I learn so much on Twitter all the time, and it would be a shame not to share that with my readers. Jenny Han

Time Twitter Would Would-Be Shame Share Learn Readers Much

A tweet in an article can feel more permanent and louder than a tweet on Twitter. Jenny Han

Twitter More Feel Permanent Louder Article Than Tweet

It's not hard to get into a teen's head, because it's all emotions. Their feelings are amplified; you have no luxury of hindsight. If you haven't had your heart broken before, you don't know that you'll be able to get back up again. Jenny Han

There's some of me in all my characters. Jenny Han

Me Characters Some

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager. Jenny Han

Book Writing College First Teenager

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