Actively Quote by Ma Jian

When I lived in China, my works were already being banned, and I couldn't publish. In those days, when I was in China, I…

— Gao Xingjian

I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works…

— Ma Jian

I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little…

— Salman Rushdie

One of the problems of truth being censored for a really long time is that people lose the ability to intuit what truth might…

— Salman Rushdie

We need to write because so many of our stories are not being heard. Where could they be heard in this era of fear…

— Sandra Cisneros

To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as are calls…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. ... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write.…

— J. D. Salinger

I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.

— Ma Jian

In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared…

— Tanith Lee

When you publish something, it is very much as if you pulled your pants down in public. If what you have written is good,…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

There are some serious limitations in Mo Yan's situation as a writer in China today - just as there are for Jia Zhangke, one…

— Pankaj Mishra