It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.

Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.

It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung