I have always been independent. I like it that way. 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.

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

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

I have always been independent. I like it that way. When someone forces me to do something, I don't do it.

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

The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.