"A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel."

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Source : "Prolific Nobel winner's pen name? 'Not talking'" By Joe Sterling and Steven Jiang, www.cnn.com. October 11, 2012.

Mo Yan

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“Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.”
“What is the spiritual purpose of the arts? It is to learn structure. Once an artist creates a true structure, then divine love can pour into it and make it a living thing of beauty.”
“I was raised with this idea of hard work and keeping doors open. To be able to choose what you want to do in the future. That was what we tried to tell our children, too.”

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“For me the path to the literary goes through the non - literary. For this reason it surprises me that I am a writer, or that people speak of me as a writer. I'm flattered, but I don't quite believe it.”

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“Well, as a former small businessperson - I understand what's going on, I think in the business community. And businesspeople around the country are looking at all the spending and all the debt. They're looking at all the policies coming out of this Congress and this administration the last two years, and they - it's created all this uncertainty.”
“I always suggest to women to take time away from the norm. And that takes a lot of courage. Most people can't do that, they can't loose and run, and say, 'Look, I'm going to just have an entirely new environment, devoid of all the habitual concerns of the day.'”
“The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.”
“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”

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