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Ma Jian Quotes

Chinese - Writer | August 18, 1953 -

Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.

Luxury Living London Cruise Being

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

Time Red People Late New Opening

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

Fear People Understand Chinese How

China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.

Responsibility Society Someone See

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

Left Books Beijing Before Returned

In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

Time Persistence Singing Back Living

Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.

Me Finish Years Beijing Took

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.

Me Writing Deep Important China

The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

World New Stage Status China Grand

The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

Today People Media Information Event

Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.

Age Art Child Loved Born Become

While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.

Work Police Door Writing Book Out

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