Xiaolu Guo

“If you spend enough time reading someone else’s thoughts, after a while their thoughts begin to infect you. Your grasp on yourself…

— Xiaolu Guo

It's not a choice. Either I write or I don't, especially when I'm in a foreign culture. I've lived in London for…

— Xiaolu Guo

Huizi would say, never look back to the past. Never regret. Even if there is emptiness ahead, never look back.

— Xiaolu Guo

“I felt an urge to conquer this new village.”

— Xiaolu Guo

“Hot coffee is like a warm-blooded man. They both give you the courage to face a new day.”

— Xiaolu Guo

“Heavenly Bastard in the Sky”

— Xiaolu Guo

Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty.

— Xiaolu Guo

“English words made only from twenty-six characters? Are English a bit lazy or what? We have fifty thousand characters in Chinese.”

— Xiaolu Guo

“I'd try to wash away the noise of the weeping woman and the vision of dust, but it echoed in my head…

— Xiaolu Guo

“Love', this English word: like other English words it has tense. 'Loved' or 'will love' or 'have loved'. All these tenses mean…

— Xiaolu Guo

“We were like family - family members always hurt each other. And Ben was not my family, he lived for himself. A…

— Xiaolu Guo

“But what so different of eating plants? Everything has it's life. If you are so pure, why not just stop eating? So…

— Xiaolu Guo