Ma Jian Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.”

“I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.”

“Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.”

“Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.”

“It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.”

“I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.”

“In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.”

“On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.”

“The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.”

“When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.”