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Ma Jian Quotes

I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: chinese
Birth: August 18, 1953

Topics

Responsibility I Am Being Critical

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

Write Because Loose Like Prose

I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

Think Try Illness Something Cure

I would say the country is a different country. It is a better country. The signs I saw when I was growing up are gone and they will not return. In many ways the walls of segregation have been torn down.

Walls Growing Up Better Down Country

People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.

People End Look Down Up Being

The discovery of artemisinin was an example of successful collective efforts.

Discovery Collective Successful

The greatest promotion I ever had on a newspaper was when 'The Washington Post' suddenly promoted me from city-side general assignment reporter to Latin American correspondent and sent me off to Cuba. Fidel Castro had just come to power. It was a very exciting assignment, but also very serious.

Power Me American Promotion Serious

The reason I'm a Nixonite is because of his indestructibility and resilience. He never quit.

Resilience Quit Never Quit Never He

Jazz is very important. It's not something I can put my finger on. When I'm writing at my favorite time, I like to have the gentle side of Coltrane or Brubeck on the CD player. It creates sort of a spiritual space in which I write best.

Miller Williams

Time Best Spiritual Space Writing

Since Michael died I think I've worked constantly. Friends and colleagues are very sustaining. They're the people who get you through it... It's no good to be on your own.

Good People Colleagues Think Friends

People would see me on a Nickelodeon commercial, and I would hear about it the next day in school.

Day School People Me Next See

Very, very few podcasts have made it to scale, and to me, that says this business will never be big.

Jason Calacanis

Business Me Will Never Big Made

There are many causes of violent deaths in America - murders and traffic accidents - that we do not approach with the same 'no price too steep, no task too difficult' approach that we take toward al Qaeda.

Dennis C. Blair

America Price Traffic Difficult Task

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