English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.

- Ha Jin

When the first emperor wanted to unify the country, one of the major policies was to create one system of written signs. By force, brutal force, he e…

- Ha Jin

Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thing—very often I think a lot of…

- Ha Jin

You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.

- Ha Jin

I don't think of myself as a dissident, and I'm more of an immigrant than an exile.

- Ha Jin

No, It's hard to uproot yourself and really become yourself in another soil, but it's also an opportunity, another kind of growth.

- Ha Jin

Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.

- Ha Jin

The more you move, the stronger you'll grow.

- Ha Jin

Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.

- Ha Jin