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 think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by

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  My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese p

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  I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describi

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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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  I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down.

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• Mo Yan:

  I have always been independent.