From early on, I was nourished in a literary way. I didn't realize that there was a writer already living in me - Geling Yan

Good stories will keep haunting me for years. They will mature and want to be born. I can't help it.

But it’s frustrating, that you know what good literature is but you cannot get it totally right.

I was disillusioned with the communists after they shot the students at the square. But now I'm disgusted with this country [US], as well. I thought the US was such a free land. I don't know where else I should go to now. I was just naturalised.