Quotes by Yiyun Li

Yiyun Li

A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.

Dreamer

Mutual

Real

But loneliness is as delusive a belief in the pertinence of the world as is love: in choosing to feel lonely, as in choosing to love, one carves a space next to oneself to be filled by others – a friend, a lover, a toy poodle, a violinist on the radio.

Loneliness

Lonely

Space

Every place is a good place, only time goes wrong.

Good Place

Only Time

Everybody contributes something to the system, and everybody suffers from the system.

Suffering

I always tell my students to go back after a hundred pages and rewrite from the beginning. It’s really harder if you’ve already finished four hundred pages and realize the first hundred aren’t working.

Firsts

Four

Pages

I think our eyes are trained to look for what we want to see.

Eye

Thinking

I think the isolation in China also has to do with people’s memories being wiped out, collective memories as well as individual memories, by the fact that the recent history has been constantly rewritten and revised.

Isolation

Memories

Thinking

If I didn’t self-censor, I would be in jail, and then I wouldn’t be effective at all.

Mrs. Pang was once a nanny for me, and she spoils me the way I imagined kindhearted women would spoil an orphan, loving me for whom I am, exactly the opposite of my mother, whose love I have to earn with great effort and with little success.

Effort

Mother

Opposites

No one is immune from either taking the wrong action or not taking action at all, but the sense that something is completely out of a person’s control is stronger in China.

Action

Stronger

Taking Action

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Action

Alive

Bigs

Calling

Censorship

Character

Children

Culture

Dreamer

Effort

Eye

Faces

Firsts

Four

Good Place

Hero

Isolation

Loneliness

Lonely

Long

Memories

Mistake

Mother

Mutual

Only Time

Opposites

Pages

Pay

People

Politeness

Political

Real

Reason

Space

Stronger

Suffering

Systematic

Taking Action

Thinking

Tragedy

Trying

Way

Writing

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Quotes by Yiyun Li

Yiyun Li

A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.

But loneliness is as delusive a belief in the pertinence of the world as is love: in choosing to feel lonely, as in choosing to love, one carves a space next to oneself to be filled by others – a friend, a lover, a toy poodle, a violinist on the radio.

Every place is a good place, only time goes wrong.

Everybody contributes something to the system, and everybody suffers from the system.

I always tell my students to go back after a hundred pages and rewrite from the beginning. It’s really harder if you’ve already finished four hundred pages and realize the first hundred aren’t working.

I think our eyes are trained to look for what we want to see.

I think the isolation in China also has to do with people’s memories being wiped out, collective memories as well as individual memories, by the fact that the recent history has been constantly rewritten and revised.

If I didn’t self-censor, I would be in jail, and then I wouldn’t be effective at all.

Mrs. Pang was once a nanny for me, and she spoils me the way I imagined kindhearted women would spoil an orphan, loving me for whom I am, exactly the opposite of my mother, whose love I have to earn with great effort and with little success.

No one is immune from either taking the wrong action or not taking action at all, but the sense that something is completely out of a person’s control is stronger in China.

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