229 Quotes by Liu Cixin

For about 30 years, I stayed in the same department and worked the same job, which was rare among people of my age. I chose this path because it allowed me to work on my fiction.

As a science fiction fan, the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award mean a lot to me.

Facing ultimate destruction and the end of the world, human society will undergo extreme, complex, and profound transformations.

Humans are selfish, and because of our innate selfishness, I'm very confident that we can overcome any amount of environmental destruction.

I'm a writer. I don't begin with some conceit in mind. I'm just trying to tell a good story.

The earth's crust is very thin but the planet can act as a spaceship if a force or energy powerful enough was exerted on it, to eject it from the solar system. But its mantle and core may leak due to inertia, causing the planet to disintegrate.

In high school and college, I started to read more and write science fiction myself. I was fully engaged in writing in the 1990s.

My own family went through its own difficulties in the Cultural Revolution, perhaps in a milder form than many other people.

China lacks good science fiction, but not mediocre science fiction. Even so, the gap between Chinese and American sci-fi is still very large and it is most apparent in quality of the works.