As soon as I learned to read, I fell in love with it. When I read primary literature stories, I began an undertaking — playing the parts of my stories in my mind. Those parts — sometimes they were from my reading materials, sometimes they were just my inventions — but if I loved a certain character in a book very much, I acted that character many times, and was moved deeply by the acting.
Language is a magical thing. When a child who is very sensitive to spiritual things enters that world, his or her imagination will proliferate wildly, and performances will become his or her real life. So although I didn’t begin writing formally until I was thirty, I gave performances all the time. And only these sorts of performances could satisfy my needs. All the other things were at most second-best compared with this.
Interview [Chinese Literature Today, 2010]
Use the link below to read about the life and work of Chinese novelist (and recent Nobel Prize candidate) CAN XUE:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-67014660
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