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18 quotes by Mo Yan

Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè; born 17 February 1955), better known by the pen name Mo Yan (/moʊ jɛn/, Chinese: 莫言; pinyin: Mò Yán), is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. Donald Morrison of U.S. news magazine TIME referred to him as "one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers", and Jim Leach called him the Chinese answer to Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller....
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A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.

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Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

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Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

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I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

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No person writes to win awards.

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One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

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When someone forces me to do something I don't do it.

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A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform... →

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For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.

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I have always been independent.

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I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they... →

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When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this... →

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I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to... →

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