I like to listen. I'm much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure.
... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.
I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.
Whatever I do in life, I'm almost always aware that there's another way to do it.
There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.
Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.