"I write about my region, the countryside in…" — Mo Yan
"I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up."
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27 Quotes by Mo Yan
Mo Yan has 27 quotes on this site.
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People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.
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A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.
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Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will…
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The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.
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A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.
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The sun, a red wheel, was sinking slowly in the west. Besides being spectacularly beautiful, the early-summer sunset was exceedingly…
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All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in…
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Some may want to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in their rooms and use…
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I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.
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A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.
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A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in…
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For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat,…
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More Countryside Quotes
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one of 159 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things…
— Bill Bryson
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An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of…
— Bill Bryson
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Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of…
— Bill Bryson
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In the countryside, litter doesn't have a friend. It doesn't have anybody who's saying, 'Wait a minute, this is really…
— Bill Bryson
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The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime…
— Billy Campbell
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I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I…
— Hugo Chavez
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Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all…
— Amedeo Modigliani
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The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn ... spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end ... earth scents…
— Monica Baldwin
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I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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I think that everybody has acknowledged that, in controlling foxes, hunting is hardly used as a method at all. To…
— Ian Cawsey
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I once visited an RSPCA hospital in Norfolk. I spoke to the vets working there, and asked them how many…
— Ian Cawsey
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