Literature hasn’t come up with any new themes. The literature of all different times – it’s still dealing with how one resolves issues of existence. Gao Xingjian Read Quote
Since childhood, I’d dreamed of making a film, but producers in France and Germany wanted to make commercial films with chinoiserie. I refused. Gao Xingjian Read Quote
I don’t want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself. Gao Xingjian Read Quote
When I lived in China, my works were already being banned, and I couldn’t publish. In those days, when I was in China, I was writing for myself, so that’s the process of writing for myself that was the most important thing. Gao Xingjian Read Quote
In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write? Gao Xingjian Read Quote
When I completed writing ‘Soul Mountain,’ I more or less closed the accounts with China for myself. I was 50 years old when I left, so China is already within me. Gao Xingjian Read Quote
Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature. Gao Xingjian Read Quote
