Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly.
Gao Xingjian
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Gao Xingjian
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: January 4
Film Director
Literary Critic
Novelist
Painter
Playwright
Translator
Writer
Xingjian Gao
Hành Kiện Cao
Hsing-chien Kao
Would
Suffocate
Profound
Novel
Write
Writing
More quotes by Gao Xingjian
I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or not wouldn't make a difference, I would still be waiting to get cremated.
Gao Xingjian
There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer.
Gao Xingjian
Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.
Gao Xingjian
For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.
Gao Xingjian
When you're telling a story, you've got to give details.
Gao Xingjian
Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.
Gao Xingjian
Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.
Gao Xingjian
Realty exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience.
Gao Xingjian
Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.
Gao Xingjian
They say it only takes an instant to have a dream a dream can be compressed into hardtack.
Gao Xingjian
Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.
Gao Xingjian
The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a person's existence.
Gao Xingjian
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
Gao Xingjian
Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can't find any problem, he loses all reason for living.
Gao Xingjian
In my view the time for rousing revolutionary literature has passed, because the revolution has already revolutionised itself to death and has left behind only bitterness and a sort of weariness, listlessness and even nausea.
Gao Xingjian
Man tends to think that he is a creator, that he is like God. This is especially true of intellectuals, and in the last century, intellectuals tended to forget that they were like everyone else. Writing this book was a description of man going from a state of God back to a state of man, back to being a normal person.
Gao Xingjian
When God talks to humans he doesn't want humans to hear his voice.
Gao Xingjian
I believe in science but I also believe in fate.
Gao Xingjian
Maybe there isn't a God after all, maybe there's only a universe rotating by itself like a millstone.
Gao Xingjian
You should know that there is little you can seek in this world, that there is no need for you to be so greedy, in the end all you can achieve are memories, hazy, intangible, dreamlike memories which are impossible to articulate. When you try to relate them, there are only sentences, the dregs left from the filter of linguistic structures.
Gao Xingjian
