Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.

I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.

You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me.

I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.

Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.

Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.