Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.
"Gao Xingjian" is a Chinese émigré novelist, playwright, and critic who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature “for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity.” He is also a noted translator (particularly of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco), screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter. In 1998, Gao was granted French citizenship.
Gao's drama is considered to be fundamentally The Theatre of the Absurd/absurdist in nature and avant-garde in his native China. His prose works tend to be less celebrated in China but are highly regarded elsewhere in Europe and the West.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous novelists! More Gao Xingjian on Wikipedia.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.
When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
In the grand tradition, both Chinese and Western painting have a close link with literature.
In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?
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