Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.

I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.

After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?

Hope is the adrenalin of the soul.

For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.

Libraries are the pride of the city.