An Oppressed People Will Always Rise.

As A Writer, I Am An Intellectual. I Believe In The Ideals Of The Enlightenment, I Believe In The Written Word, In Dialogue And In Truth. I Hate Lies More Than Anything Else. Most Of The Time I React By Writing.

One Of The Agonies Of Being An Author Is To Know When To Stop Writing.

Although I Never Marched Through The Streets Shouting For Mao, I Do Believe That The Liberation Of China At The End Of The 1940s Was A Wonderful Thing And To Provide Its People With A Billion Pairs Of Shoes And Trousers Was A Fantastic Achievement.

The Stories I Create Are Never As Awful As Reality.

I Can Still Remember The Miraculous Feeling Of Writing A Sentence, Then More Sentences, Telling A Story. The First Thing I Wrote Was A One-page Summary Of Robinson Crusoe And I Am So Sorry I Do Not Have It Any More; It Was At That Moment I Became An Author.