Novel Quotes

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.