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Jenny Zhang

Jenny Zhang Quotes

Total quotes: 2

Jenny Zhang

Birthname

AKA: Jenny Zhang

Birthday: June 22, 1987

Birthplace: Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Educated At: Beijing Film Academy

Nationality: People's Republic Of China

Occupations: Actor

Total quotes: 2

“Don’t worry about pleasing others. Don’t compare yourself to anyone else. Be the writer you wanted to read but never found. Develop a strong core that you can return to again and again, something that isn’t predicated on external validation.”

— Jenny Zhang

Tagged: Writing, Writing Advice, writer, Writer Advice, Writer's Truth, stop pleasing everyone, Inspirational, Empowering, Motivational

“I thought about the notebooks I filled up in high school, the ones that I’m still too scared to open up and revisit, not because I think my bad writing will make me cringe, but because I’m afraid my bad writing will make me yearn to write like that again—and I don’t mean writing poems that compare my loneliness to a black hole or my love to a prairie devastated by fire, but rather to write with tremendous heart and without concern for taste or craft, without concern for the entire wretched literary canon that has come before me, the literary canon that is still mostly populated by boring, uninspiring white dudes whose writing will never change my life.”

— Jenny Zhang, The Importance Of Angsty Art

Tagged: Writing, Art, Creation, Innocennce, Freedom, Literary Liberation, How I Feel Today

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