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Portrait of Qiu Xiaolong

Qiu Xiaolong

(1953) Writer United States

6 quotes in 17 categories

Qiu Xiaolong is a writer from the United States, best known for Hold Your Breath, China.

Quick Facts About Qiu Xiaolong

Born: January 1, 1953
Nationality: United States
Profession: Writer
Notable works: Hold Your Breath, China

About Qiu Xiaolong

Qiu Xiaolong is a Chinese American crime novelist, poet, translator, critic, and academic. Born in Shanghai, he originally visited the United States in 1988 to write a book about T. S. Eliot, but remained in the US following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Anthony Award for Best First Novel

Quotes by Qiu Xiaolong

“The wind languished. The floral curtain ceased flapping. The moonlight streamed through, lighting up her face. It was a young, animated face.…

Romantic

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“Heaven or hell is in one’s mind, not in the material things one has in the world,”

Heaven or hell

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If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like…

Enough

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“No son las personas las que hacen las interpretaciones sino las interpretaciones las que hacen a las personas.”

Ser-humano

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“I was reminded of a proverb: 'When a clay Buddha statue sails across the river, it can hardly protect itself.”

Frailty

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When you wear the mask, the mask becomes you.

Funny

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