Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.

It's a matter of whether you see the self as fundamentally in relationship to other selves or not - whether you see the boundary between self and the world as relatively permeable, which makes you "interdependent" (collectivist) in outlook, or relatively impermeable, which makes you "independent" (individualistic).

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

I like to listen. I'm much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure.