Quotes by : Yiyun Li

People don't vanish from one's life they come back in disguise.

I have spent much of my life turning away from the scripts given to me, in China and in America; my refusal....

Tragedy and comedy involve an audience, so they must give--sharing themselves to elicit tears and laughter.....

When we feel haunted, it is the pull of our own home we're experiencing, but a more upsetting possibility....

Never would I have a more memorable time than the month I spent in the mountains, though I wonder, when....

I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all....

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

A woman accepted anything from life and made it the best a man bargained for the better but also the....

A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.

When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while....