"I don't see myself in the circle of Asian-American writers. My English is only that of a 15-year-old. I don't feel co…"

"There are still many problems that aren't answered in China. As a writer, I have to keep searching for truth. The Chi…"

"Good stories will keep haunting me for years. They will mature and want to be born. I can't help it."

"With books or film I want to commemorate our youth and the sacrifices they made. No matter how bitter the time was, t…"

"From early on, I was nourished in a literary way. I didn't realize that there was a writer already living in me"

"I like to play with words. In English, there's only one or two ways to say something; in Chinese there are 30 ways."

"Any suffering registered in your mind makes the emotion deeper. Maybe as a writer, I am constantly looking for tragedy."

"It’s always challenging to portray foreign characters in a novel that is told mainly from a Chinese perspective or, y…"

"I believe all free thinkers, all artists and writers, should be independent from the mainstream so they won’t take th…"

"I was disillusioned with the communists after they shot the students at the square. But now I'm disgusted with this c…"