Mo Yan
Mo Yan
Guan Moye, better known by the pen name Mo Yan, is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. Donald Morrison of U.S. news magazine TIME referred to him as "one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers", and Jim Leach called him the Chinese answer to Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 February 1955
CountryChina
political literature world
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.
spiritual voice views
The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.
order faces mutilation
A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.
voice use literature
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.
character should novel
A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.
writing thinking soul
I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.
beautiful summer sunset
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.
prayer mean writing
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!
writing winning awards
No person writes to win awards.
loneliness hunger creation
Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.
writing grew countryside
I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up.
writing way natural
A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.
talking people literature
People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.
writing thinking stories
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.