"One of the biggest problems in literature is……" — Mo Yan
"One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety."
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27 Quotes by Mo Yan
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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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