"I could only see myself making a living through writing, as I had done in China. But should I write in Chinese here, …"

"State censorship was an obvious assault on our creativity, but few Chinese writers actually acknowledge the serious a…"

"My growing environmental awareness only added more fuel to the argument for having no children. And the logic of neve…"

"We now live in an age in which we are all information rich and experience poor."

"Nature both creates and destroys."

"[About Yayoi Kusama:] Classifying her work as 'art brut' is simplistic and unfair. For me she represents the history …"

"Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time. The chasm b…"

"“What happened to her books?” “They went up in smoke. Confiscated by the Red Guards, who promptly burnt them in publi…"

"We had been so unlucky. By the time we had finally learnt to read properly, there had been nothing left for us to read."

"Four-Eyes’s parents probably wanted their son to be a writer. They must have thought it would be good for him to read…"