Indifference is the strongest contempt.

No, It's hard to uproot yourself and really become yourself in another soil, but it's also an opportunity, another kind of growth.

You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.

Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thing—very often I think a lot of writers write because they have failed to do other things. How many writers can’t drive? A lot. They’re not practical. They are not capable in everyday life.

Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.

Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the revolutionary machine. I wanted to be a human being with a voice.

I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.