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

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

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

Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.

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.

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

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