In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.

It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.

Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.

The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.

There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.

Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.