1994 quotes by chinese authors for you to enjoy

'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 wonder. Jenny Zhang

Poet Late Danish Poem Alphabet Also Text Wonder Activist

I'd behave savagely if I had access to Bjoerk's closet. Jenny Zhang

Had Access Behave Closet

I seem to be drawn to these smaller forms, and I seem to be drawn to things that can be written and also read in one sitting. Jenny Zhang

Drawn Seem Written Smaller Also Read Sitting Forms Things

Growing up, I had a face that people wanted to tell things to, and I grew up with adults who had so much to say. They had lived through decades of unbelievable poverty, starvation, political upheaval, chaos. Jenny Zhang

People Political Face Poverty Starvation Chaos Say Tell Unbelievable Through Adult Had Up Upheaval Decades Wanted Grew Much Who Growing Lived Growing Up Things

Chinese people of my parents' generation who lived through the Cultural Revolution knew so much of death at such a young age, and the psychic toll those experiences left was immense. I knew the stories of the Cultural Revolution before knowing what the Cultural Revolution was. Jenny Zhang

Death Age Generation People Psychic Parents Before Revolution Young Those Immense Through Knew Knowing Cultural Left Young Age Experiences Stories Chinese Chinese People Much Who Such A Young Age Toll Lived

It's okay if someone is disgusted or offended by my performance. It's just a performance. Jenny Zhang

Offended Okay Someone Performance Just Disgusted

Once I decided I was happy with something, I'd try to send it off into the world, and either someone would want it exactly as it was, or it would remain in my notebook/laptop, and no one would ever see it. This is probably why I didn't work with an editor until I was 26. The solipsism! Jenny Zhang

We're not the best about knowing what's the most interesting about ourselves. Jenny Zhang

Best Ourselves About Most Knowing Interesting

White people have always slipped in and out of the experiences of people of color and been praised extravagantly for it. Jenny Zhang

People White Out Color Always Praised Been Experiences

My mother had two unshakable beliefs that she tried to drill into me. The first was that I had to study and work twice as hard as my white peers if I wanted to survive in America, and the second was that it was delusional and dangerous to believe I possessed the same freedom white people had to pursue my dreams. Jenny Zhang

Work Dreams Freedom Me People Dangerous Mother First White Believe Peers Possessed Tried Drill Pursue Had Unshakable Delusional Study She Survive America Same Wanted To Survive Hard Beliefs Twice Second Two

I like to keep a book underneath the pillow that I'm not sleeping on so I can reach over and grab it when I wake up. I don't always do that, but I like to. I try to make sure it's a book and not my laptop. I also try not to get too excited about who might've been trying to contact me while I was asleep. Jenny Zhang

Me Book Wake Up Try Sleeping Too About Excited Contact Over Like Reach Also Make Underneath Sure Always Pillow Been Wake Up Grab Get Trying While Might Asleep Laptop Who Keep

It's like a weird mindset to wake up and want to be wanted. Like, I want to be wanted so much already... and I'm so greedy for other people's desire that I have to really force myself to have some shame about it and some control, neither of which come easily to me. Jenny Zhang

Myself Me People Wake Up Greedy Control Other Mindset Easily Neither Some About Shame Weird Come Like Force Wake Up Want Wanted Which Much Really Desire

I just submitted what I had to the 'Octopus Books' contest open reading period, and they said they wanted to publish my poetry book. Then I started to publish more and more poetry because people would ask me to do readings or ask me submit something for their journal. Jenny Zhang

Me Book People Reading Submit Publish Books Would Something More More And More Poetry Open Had Journal Period Because Readings Contest Said Octopus Submitted Just Wanted Ask Then Started

With nonfiction, I had to learn how to be a clear communicator, but it was also a relief to be able to articulate some of my political ideas and beliefs. I also try to do that in my fiction, but I'm more interested in asking questions that lead to more questions, mysteries that lead to more mysteries, rather than immediate answers and solutions. Jenny Zhang

Political Try Mysteries Immediate Relief Solutions Able Some Rather More Lead Had Clear Ideas Also Learn How Nonfiction Answers Questions Than Articulate Fiction Interested Asking Asking Questions Communicator Beliefs

I'm always interested in what is seen as obscene or profane or unfit. Jenny Zhang

Seen Obscene Always Unfit Interested Profane

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

Think Immediately Kind Would See More Unsolvable Also Likes Reader Underneath Surface Arresting Stories Who Showy Deeper Violence Lurks

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. Jenny Zhang

Me School Other Peers Immigrants Fine Outside Contact Forbidden Make Queens Up While Chinese Growing Growing Up Socialized

Visibility doesn't always equal freedom. Jenny Zhang

Freedom Visibility Equal Always

I'm surely not the only one to notice we employ metaphors to make sense of the news. I always like to take note of who hides their origins and who shows them off. Jenny Zhang

News Sense Hides Only Take Like Employ Make Surely Always Metaphors Off Note Them Notice Who Shows Origins

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