Mo Yan Quotes

I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up.

The dead are noble, the living worthless.

A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.

Dear brother," Number Two replied, "I can eat shit, I just don't like the taste.

I have always been independent.

Wind, then rain, and then the blue sky.

And the chewing and swallowing imbue me with an unadulterated sense of donkey delight.

A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.

A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in by four walls - the demons' pen.

There are people who walk mules and people walk horses, but I never thought there were people who walk cops.

The cliche that sea dry up and rocks rot away, but the heart never changes is nothing but a beautiful fantasy.

Always choose life. A demeaned life is better than the best death.

Heavens never seals off all the exits

When people are driven nearly mad, they are imbued with superhuman strength and are capable of almost supernatural deeds.

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

When Communism has been realized, everyone will be a novelist.

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

Only by recalling a dream is an insomniac sure he's slept.

What a shame for a man like him to be born during peacetime. If he'd been born only a few decades earlier, he'd have worn the mantle of hero,

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.

I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.

If an earthworm in the ground won't starve to death, then neither will we, the working class." He

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.

People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.

The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

No person writes to win awards.

I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world.

Are women really wonderful things? Maybe they are. Yes, women are wonderful things, but when all is said and done, they aren't really things

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

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

Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?

Some may want to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in their rooms and use literature to voice their opinions.