South Korean - Author | September 3, 1980 -
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.
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We learn so much about the world by what we take in through movies and TV and books - we learn who's worthy of having their story told.
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I might just be the luckiest girl ever.
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I always know what time it is.
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It's fairly common to get something optioned but really rare to actually see it become a movie.
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I think that, oftentimes, what people say is, 'We need an actress who'll be able to greenlight a movie,' and my counterargument to that is always that, when it comes to a teen movie, you have very few people who can greenlight a movie.
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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.
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The American girl doesn't look just one kind of way - not in 2018, not ever.
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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.
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When you're young, you don't have a lot of control over even basic things in your life - where you live, what you eat, where you go during the day, how you get there. You don't have a lot of control, and that can feel sort of unstable in its own way because you don't get a say in those basic things.
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Whenever I was trying to get over a boy, I would write him a really long, wrought letter - but never mail it.
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