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….

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

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 ….

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 ….

I don't feel naked around you anymore..

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

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….

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….

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….

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….

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

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

Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty..