Xiaolu Guo

Quotes

• “I could only see myself making a living through writing, as I had done in China. But should I write in Chinese here, a foreign land, or enrol in a language class and study English grammar? If I continued to write in Chinese I would have no readers here. Besides, I would never create a community of fellow artists and thinkers in my Western life while speaking Chinese.”
• “State censorship was an obvious assault on our creativity, but few Chinese writers actually acknowledge the serious and endemic issue of self-censorship. For me it was as clear as the operation of the state's apparatus – without self-censorship an artist in China would get nowhere and had no voice.”
• “I Am China is a parallel story about two Chinese lovers in exile – the external and internal exile that I had felt since leaving China.”
• “My growing environmental awareness only added more fuel to the argument for having no children. And the logic of never-ending consumption didn't just harm the environment, it killed people too.”
• “We now live in an age in which we are all information rich and experience poor.”
• “Nature both creates and destroys.”

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