"The act of giving voice to this spiritual……" — Mo Yan

The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my… - Mo Yan

"The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer."

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27 Quotes by Mo Yan

Mo Yan has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.
A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.
Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will…
A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.
The sun, a red wheel, was sinking slowly in the west. Besides being spectacularly beautiful, the early-summer sunset was exceedingly…
All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in…
Some may want to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in their rooms and use…
I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.
A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.
A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in…
For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat,…
I have always been independent.

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More Act Quotes

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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