"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…"

"What makes me choose to write a particular story as fiction only depends on how interesting the story is and how much…"

"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…"