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No person writes to win awards.
Mo Yan / Novelist
Awards
Winning
Writing
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I have always been independent.
Mo Yan / Novelist
Independent
Always Been
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Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.
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Creation
Hunger
Loneliness
Fortunes
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When someone forces me to do something I don't do it.
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Me Someone Something
Forces
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I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up.
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Countryside
Grew Up
Writing
Region
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I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.
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Courage
Compassion
Real
Real Courage
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A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.
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Natural
Way
Writing
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One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.
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Literature
Problem
Subtlety
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People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.
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Literature
People
Talking
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A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.
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Character
Novel
Should
Writer
Bury
Convey
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The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.
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Spiritual
Views
Voice
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I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.
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Soul
Thinking
Writing
Souls
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A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.
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Faces
Order
Should
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I have always been independent. I like it that way. When someone forces me to do something, I don't do it.
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I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world.
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China
Great Work
Outstanding
Thinking
World
Authors
Works
Great World Think
Recognised
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Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.
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Circumstances
Difficult Circumstances
Profound
Thinking
Understanding
Life My Life Difficult
Possibly
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For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.
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Army
Boys
Constant
Country
Country Boy
Survival
Worry
Guaranteed
Whose
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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.
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Clouds
Moon
Wall
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Some may want to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in their rooms and use literature to voice their opinions.
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Literature
Use
Voice
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When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!
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Mean
Prayer
Writing
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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.
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Criticism
Dark
Dark Side
Expression
Human Nature
Indignation
Ugliness
Writer
Side
Express
Uniform
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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.
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Chinese
Country
Customs
Literature
People
Unique
Life Culture World
Chinese People
Folk
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I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.
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Ancient
Disputes
Economic
Human Beings
Influence
Literature
Political
Significance
World
Aware
Beings
Crises
Minimal
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I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people.
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Describing
Feet
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Path
People
Standpoint
Writing
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Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.
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Dying
Stronger
Struggle
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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.
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Brutal
Doe
Importance
Important
Literature
Our Lives
Profession
Proud
Reason
Aware
Exist
Exists
Notice
Perhaps
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I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this.
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Peasants
Puzzled
Stories
Thinking
Writing
Urge
Writings
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The sun, a red wheel, was sinking slowly in the west. Besides being spectacularly beautiful, the early-summer sunset was exceedingly soft and gentle: black mulberry leaves turned as red as roses; pristine white acacia petals shed an enshrouding pale-green aura. Mild evening breezes made both the mulberry leaves and the acacia petals dance and whirl, filling the woods with a soft rustle.
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Beautiful
Summer
Sunset
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All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge. Love is the sole holdout-nothing can explain it. A Chinese writer by the name of Ah Cheng wrote that love is just a chemical reaction, an unconventional point of view that seemed quite fresh at the time. But if love can be controlled and initiated by means of chemistry, then novelists would be out of a job. So while he may have had his finger on the truth, I'll remain a member of the loyal opposition.
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Jobs
Love Is
Mean
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