Mo Yan Quotes

Mo Yan — Chinese Novelist born on February 17, 1955,

Guan Moye, better known by the pen name Mo Yan, is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. Donald Morrison of U.S. news magazine TIME referred to him as "one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers", and Jim Leach called him the Chinese answer to Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller... (wikipedia)

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.

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

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.

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

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

Mo Yan Quotes

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