Gao Xingjian
Gao Xingjian
Gao Xingjianis a Chinese émigré novelist, playwright, and critic who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature “for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity.” He is also a noted translator, screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter. In 1998, Gao was granted French citizenship...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 January 1940
CountryChina
Gao Xingjian quotes about
Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
dream real self
Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.
want compromise ifs
If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
true-life literature fiction
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
simple layers facts
There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer.
want sand
The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything.
fighting men good-man
A good man never fights with a woman.
struggle life-is natural
Life is fragile, yet to obstinately struggle is natural.
hate love-and-hate together
Life is probably a tangle of love and hate permanently knotted together.
personal-experiences
Realty exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience.
dream instant
They say it only takes an instant to have a dream; a dream can be compressed into hardtack.
loneliness reflection ability
Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.
literature subservient
Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.
crushes experience grouping mass taught
Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.