I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world.

All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge. Love is the sole holdout-nothing can explain it. A Chinese writer by the name of Ah Cheng wrote that love is just a chemical reaction, an unconventional point of view that seemed quite fresh at the time. But if love can be controlled and initiated by means of chemistry, then novelists would be out of a job. So while he may have had his finger on the truth, I'll remain a member of the loyal opposition.

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

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.

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.

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.