Some may want to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in their rooms and use literature to voice their opinions.

Some may want to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in their rooms and use literature to voice their opinions.

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

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

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

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

A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in by four walls-the demons' pen.