Quotes by Mo Yan

About Mo Yan:

Guan Moye 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.
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Mientras contemplaba al presidente tendido en el sarcófago de cristal, recordé la sensación de cataclismo que había tenido dos años antes al oír la noticia de su fallecimiento; el desengaño al descubrir que en el mundo no había dioses. Ni en ...

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-Pero, cómo pudo Lu Wenli irse con el profesor Liu? -pregunté-. ¡Es inconcebible! -Acaso era concebible meterle la pelota en la boca de un requetazo? -replicó He Zhiwu. Indudablemente, eso formaba parte de las cosas inconcebibles, lo que demuestr...

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Lo tengo clarísimo: si un hombre no puede casarse con la mujer a la que ama, tiene que buscarse una que le aporte el mayor número de ventajas posible.

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Todo el mundo sabía que las balas no tienen ojos, que las bombas no son muy dadas a pedir disculpas y que los soldados son como tigres que han bajado de la montaña, tigres que no son precisamente vegetarianos.

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Are women really wonderful things? Maybe they are. Yes, women are wonderful things, but when all is said and done, they aren't really “things

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Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?

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My little donkey, if I hadn't shown up, your fate would have been sealed. Love has saved you. Is there anything else that could erase the innate fears of a donkey and send him to rescue you from certain death? No. That is the only one. With a call to...

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The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

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The cliche that sea dry up and rocks rot away, but the heart never changes is nothing but a beautiful fantasy.

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Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

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I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

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No person writes to win awards.

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I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people.

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

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A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.

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I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up.

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For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.

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I have always been independent.

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When someone forces me to do something I don't do it.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameMo Yan
  • DescriptionChinese novelist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature
  • AliasesGuan Moye
  • BornFebruary 17, 1955
  • CountryPeople's Republic Of China
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Teacher
  • WorksRed Sorghum; The Republic Of Wine; Life And Death Are Wearing Me Out
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature