No person writes to win awards.
A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.
People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.
The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.
I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this.
Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.