82 Quotes by Mo Yan

People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.

I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world.

I have always been independent.

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.

A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.

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

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance.