Mo Yan

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.

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.