Yiyun Li Quotes

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Yiyun Li, born on November 4, 1972, is a prominent Chinese writer known for her profound character portrayal and unique narrative style. Her works have won wide acclaim from readers.

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Famous Yiyun Li Quotes

“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind of life permits a person the right to become his own subject?”

Writing Self Identity Memoir Autobiography

Book:Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

Source: Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

“Your characters are always your children. And while you are writing, you're keeping them safe. Now they're ready to go into the world and it's sad. I'm happy with the way the novel came out but all the characters' ending really saddened me.”

World Way Writing Children Character Novel Ready Safe Our Children Your Children Saddened Really Sad

Author:Yiyun Li

“Why do I write about China? That is a very good question. I think there are questions about China that I haven't been able to answer. The reason I write is that there are questions to which I want to find answers - or I want to find questions beyond those questions.”

Thinking Writing Reason Very Good

Author:Yiyun Li

“Horrible that you could write in a language so well, but have nothing meaningful to say.”

Writing Language Meaningful Horrible

Author:Yiyun Li

“You can write about a country without taking a stand, but you cannot write about a country without noting that there's history, and that there's politics going on. To me, that's the same if you write about America. You don't have to write about politics, but the politics have to be present in the characters.”

Writing Country Character

Author:Yiyun Li

“To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.”

Writing Ends Struggle Someday

Author:Yiyun Li

“What a long way it is from one life to another: yet why write if not for that distance; if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.”

Ifs Way Writing Long Letting Go Distance Replaced Long Way

Book:Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

Source: Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

About the Author

Born: November 4, 1972
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 60

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