"No person writes to win awards." — Mo Yan
"No person writes to win awards."
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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 Awards Quotes
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one of 591 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an…
— Kevin Bacon
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I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt…
— Erykah Badu
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I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting…
— Alec Baldwin
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Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.
— Ernie Banks
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with…
— Iain Banks
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An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor.
— Javier Bardem
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The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any…
— Javier Bardem
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Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other,…
— Javier Bardem
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I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
— Jack Benny
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I carried my Oscar to bed with me. My first and only three-way happened that night.
— Halle Berry
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The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them…
— Danny Boyle
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The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.
— Jeff Bridges
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