Jenny Han Quotes

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.

There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write

I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.

NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science fiction like, '2001,' for example, or the first 'Matrix.' But it takes someone who's got a brain and thinks in order to do really good science fiction.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

The fact is, for all the critics' talk about me as a realist, I'm making everything up - everything. It is all about imagining with me.

The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But it damn well better be beautiful.

I think a good designer can exist everywhere and anywhere and all the time. It's all about being good, and I think that our job basically is to make women and men look good.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

I make things up for a living. It would be pretty boring to just fictionalize real people.

I don't want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.