4 Ba Jin Quotes on Writing

Ba Jin quotes on writing

5. I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.

6. I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.

7. Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.

13. Now my education, life and consciousness are talked about by those who cannot understand what I wrote, what I think, what is my life. They make me up from their subjective imagination and attack me publicly as well as secretly. Because my novels completely obscure my behaviour and ideas, and result in a lot of misunderstandings, my name is related to nihilism or humanism, although I have written a book of over three hundred pages to explain my ideas (this book is very easy to understand and without a metaphysical term). Those who talk about me never read it. They judged my ideas according to one of my short stories, then deduced a variety of strange conclusions and decided which doctrine I belong to. I have been caught in this predicament all these years and cannot get rid of it...