Jenny Zhang Quotes

When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.

Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the speaker is trying to be poetic, it's just that that's the way language works.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

I don't think there's a date minimum or maximum. I don't get the whole 'All right, you've got to wait three days to call after the date.' If I got a number from a girl, I'd call that night. There's no science to it for me. You just do what it is that you feel like doing.

For 16 years I spoke in trial metaphors, and perhaps I need to get out of that habit.

I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.

I have an aversion to news nuggets, so I find myself looking for sites that offer more analysis.

All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.

If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news.

It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.

I'm not interested in breaking news. I'm interested in telling the story of what's going on and then trying to figure it out.

There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor's almost imperceptible touch.

The truthiness is, anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news 'at' you.

People pay attention to what a President says, whether or not he pauses for emphasis in the right places. Sometimes they even read the text.

Regan’s greatness as a rhetorician was in his delivery not in the content of what he said as with Churchill and Roosevelt.

I must use beautiful words. I never know when I might have to eat them.

People who watch news are pretty smart. Most of them don't just go to one channel for all their news anyway.

The job for cable is to give the news and then also give the 'so what.'

I've always read the papers but didn't feel I knew enough in the past. But doing the research and looking at newspapers and online websites gives you a 360-degree view of the news.

I find I process the news by listening to someone else's report.

We don't sit down and look at the news pages and think, 'How could we do an episode about that?'

Every news network within their division has opinion and then has news.

There's not much opportunity to learn to read the news. By and large, you either can or you can't do it pretty much straight away.

I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.

The Americans are just more enthusiastic and more likely to engage in hyperbole.