GAO XINGJIAN QUOTES III

Chinese novelist & playwright (1940- )

When you're telling a story, you've got to give details.

GAO XINGJIAN

Dialogue and Rebuttal

Tags: writing


You're safe only when you can't see anybody.

GAO XINGJIAN

Escape


You contemplate and you wander without any worries, between heaven and earth, in your own private world, and in this way you acquire supreme freedom.

GAO XINGJIAN

Nocturnal Wanderer

Tags: freedom


Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.

GAO XINGJIAN

"Cold Literature", The Case for Literature