When someone forces me to do something I don't do it.

A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.

When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!

I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up.

My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs.