“I am a conventional science fiction author. But that said, once your w...” — Liu Cixin Quote

“I am a conventional science fiction author. But that said, once your work is published, it no longer belongs to you. It belongs to the readers and they will derive all sorts of interpretations.”

“In my youth, when I tried to plan for the future, I had wished to be an engineer so I could get work with technology while writing sci-fi after hours. I figured that if I got lucky, I could then turn into a full-time writer.”

“Facing ultimate destruction and the end of the world, human society will undergo extreme, complex, and profound transformations.”

“The distribution might which Penguin brought to the table and the stature they gave me as an author is unparalleled.”

“I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.”

“As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a group of children, and you learn when you're boring them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they're interested again. You start to get a sense of your story's rhythm and flow.”