Quotes by : Ma Jian

Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits....

Before the sparrow arrived, you had almost stopped thinking about flight. Then, last winter, it soared....

I left Beijing because I wanted to be alone and to forge my own path, but I know now that no path is....

Before the counter-culture revolutionary Li Lian was executed in 1971 for criticising the Cultural Revolution,....

I don't know where I am going, I just know I had to leave. Everything I was I carry with me, everything....

Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own....

Beauty can make a woman rich, but if she relies solely on her looks to get by, she'll always remain under....