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.

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.

English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.

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.

Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.

The more you move, the stronger you'll grow.