Never look back to the past, never regret, even if there is emptiness ahead.' But I couldn't help it. Sometimes I would rather look back if it meant ….

People always say it's harder to heal a wounded heart than a wounded body. Bullshit. It's exactly the opposite—a wounded body takes much longer to he….

I’m saying language is a passport. A dubious, dangerous passport too..

About time, what I really learned from studying English is: time is different with timing. I understand the difference of these two words so well. I ….

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance..

I think our literary tradition has to evolve, has to explore its form and its spirit through writers and thinkers, rather than let the lazy, easy tra….

There was - there still is - a big shortage of good Chinese-English literary translators. So for two years in London, I was stuck waiting, not writin….

But why people need privacy? Why privacy is important? In China, every family live together, grandparents, parents, daughter, son and their relatives….

It's not a choice. Either I write or I don't, especially when I'm in a foreign culture. I've lived in London for years, and I must continue my writin….

Huizi would say, never look back to the past. Never regret. Even if there is emptiness ahead, never look back..

I don't feel naked around you anymore..

Self-censorship happens not only in China, or Iran or ex-Soviet places. It can happen anywhere. If an artist penetrates a certain taboo or a certain ….

I thought English is a strange language. Now I think French is even more strange. In France, their fish is poisson, their bread is pain, and their pa….

I do think there will be a better understanding between the two sides - East and West. And eventually, the so-called two sides will disappear, and th….

Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty..

Somehow, in the novel format, I don't really like to do upfront, ideological discussion. In my heart, literature remains a poetic and ambiguous mediu….