Mo Yan Quotes: top 34 famous quotes about Mo Yan

Mo Yan Quotes & Sayings

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

The dead are noble, the living worthless. — Mo Yan

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

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

I have always been independent. — Mo Yan

Wind, then rain, and then the blue sky. — Mo Yan

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

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

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. — Mo Yan

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

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

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

Heavens never seals off all the exits — Mo Yan

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

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

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

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 — Mo Yan

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation. — Mo Yan

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

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

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

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? — Mo Yan

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. — Mo Yan

No person writes to win awards. — Mo Yan

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

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

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

Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime. — Salman Rushdie

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

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

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. — Mo Yan

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, — Mo Yan

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

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety. — Mo Yan