Do not take trivial matters lightly, as a small gap will sink the boat; do not take trivial things lightly, as small insects will poison your body. ("Wu Yinzi? 6? 1 Nine Medicines")

A person who never makes a mistake can never accomplish anything. (Bernard Shaw)

Don’t reveal your entire character all at once, but reveal it bit by bit and gradually. (Fumanov)

Do you love life? So, don't waste your time. Because time is the stuff of life. (Franklin)

Those who pity you are not friends, but those who help you are friends. (Fuller)

Don’t be superstitious about form. (Ai Qing)

Wherever there are flatterers, there are fools. (Edison)

Imagination is more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited, and imagination summarizes everything in the world, promotes progress, and becomes the source of knowledge evolution. (Einstein)

The truth of literature will not be the truth of nature. (Balzac)

The secret of success in achieving world-famous immortality lies in authenticity. (Balzac)

Observe, observe, observe again. (Pavlov)

The characters cannot be the same, otherwise there will be no individuality; the performance cannot be excessive, otherwise it will be unsubtle; the language cannot be vulgar, otherwise it will not be elegant; the techniques cannot be chaotic, otherwise there will be no priority. (Ba Jin)

Patience is the foundation of all intelligence. (Plato)

It is necessary to plagiarize others, but it is pitiful to plagiarize yourself. (Picasso)

People, you should rely on your own strength! (Beethoven)

In art, imagination plays the most active and leading role; in science, it is reason and thinking. (Belinsky)

Wherever there is life, there is poetry, and therefore there is also the content of poetry. Only content can be the true measure of all poets, whether genius or ordinary. (Belinsky)

Reputation is like sitting in a sedan chair. You have to be carried by others, not yourself. (Bing Xin)

Creation must come from life. (Bing Xin)

Concentrate on studying and play happily. (Bing Xin)

Knowledge of worldly affairs is knowledge, and understanding of human feelings is writing. (Cao Xueqin)

When you encounter a cup of bitter wine in life, what else can you do except drink it? (Chi Li)

It is the writer who embodies the literary level of a nation and an era, and it is the readers who determine this level. (Chen Chong)

All successful people in the world have discovered their own understanding. (Jia Pingwa)

Humanity and culture are subtle and profound. (Jia Pingwa)

If you don’t understand it well in reading, avoid following it when practicing writing. A calm mind will give rise to the spirit, and observe in Tai Chi. (Jia Pingwa)

When writing novels, the characters must be put into a living environment, and those who are imagined in the house are often dead. (Jia Pingwa)

People in this world really can’t afford to offend! No matter how blind you are, maybe when it comes to use, it's just as the old saying goes, a bad condom can fill a hole! (Jia Pingwa)

Without pioneers who break through all traditional ideas and techniques, there would be no real new literature and art in China. Literature and art are the fire of the national spirit and the light that guides the future of the national spirit. (Lu Xun)

Dissatisfaction is an upward wheel. (Lu Xun)

Try your best to delete dispensable words, sentences, and paragraphs without any regrets. (Lu Xun)

Everything that comes out of the fountain is water, and everything that comes out of the blood vessels is blood. (Lu Xun)

Drama destroys the valuable things in life for people to watch, while comedy tears apart the worthless things for people to watch. (Lu Xun)

With local characteristics, it is easy to become world-class. That is to be noticed by other countries. (Lu Xun)

Writing novels, in the final analysis, is about writing characters. The essence of novel art is the art of creating characters. (Lu Xun)

The genre of prose can actually be arbitrary. It doesn’t matter if there are flaws.

Pretentious letters and diaries may still have flaws, and once there are flaws, they will be destroyed beyond control. It is better to forget about flaws than to guard against them. (Lu Xun)

Saving time means making a person's limited life more effective, which is equivalent to extending a person's life. (Lu Xun)

On the scale of life, if you have your feet dangling in the air, you cannot support the weight of poetry. (Li Hongbi)

I would rather swallow an unripe green pear than chew a plastic red fruit. The reason is very simple: the former is true and the latter is false. (Li Hongbi)

If you say too much when you are happy, you will lose your trust; if you say too much when you are angry, you will lose your integrity. (Chen Jiru)

When you are proud, you must find a way out; when you are frustrated, you must find a way out. (Chen Jiru)

Those who understand current affairs are heroes. (Chen Shou)

The highest realm in literature and aesthetics - sublimity. The sublime is more shocking. Literature is a noble cause, so we cannot abandon the sublime outside of literature. People who engage in noble causes must have a noble soul. (Chen Baoyun)

It is commendable to engage in literary creation based on the author's own expertise and understanding of life, literature, society and the times. (Chen Baoyun)

Seniors say that learning is valuable is doubtful. Small doubts lead to small progress, big doubts lead to great progress; doubts are the opportunity for awakening. Once you awaken, you will make progress. (Chen Xianzhang)

The desire to collect can often make people develop into a systematic naturalist or art connoisseur. (Darwin)

Life is a big battlefield, and the writer is a military reporter. (Shimazaki Fujimura)

Those who don’t want to climb up will easily fall down. (Deming)

Without a kind of spiritual fire, without a kind of crazy inspiration, you cannot become a great poet. (Democritus)

The complicated life process has made people extremely shrewd and clever, and everyone has the ability to turn danger into safety. (Deng Gang)

Confusion is the prelude to great works. (Deng Gang)

What art is more harmful than that which makes us become the accomplices of evildoers? (Diderot)

Weak emotions make people mediocre. (Diderot)

The more intense the emotion can be expressed, the more interesting the play will be. (Diderot)

If you don’t say something shocking, you will die. (Du Fu)

The article tells the story of the ages, knowing the gains and losses. (Du Fu)

Change the new poem and chant it yourself. (Du Fu)

Wealth must come from hard work. (Du Fu)

Some words may be heard by the eyes, followed by the ears, faster than the heart, but ruined by actions. (Dongfang Shuo)

The less capable a person is, the more pretentious he is. (Deng Tuo)

It was too late to pull up the reins immediately when approaching the cliff, and it was too late for the boat to reach the middle of the river to make up for the leak. (Feng Menglong)

We Chinese people have a weird habit of guessing others. No matter whether your original intention is this or not, once they guess and figure it out, you will be unable to defend yourself. (Fu Qiwen)

Passion, this is the wind that fills the sails. The wind sometimes breaks the sails, but without the wind, the sailboat cannot sail. (Voltaire)

No matter when and where, the words should be persuasive. Sorrow should be moving, anger should be violent, and wisdom should be calm. (Voltaire)

He has a profound understanding of language, his words are concise, and his rhymes are sonorous from beginning to end, but he never lets rhyme hinder the meaning. (Voltaire)

You should face life with a smile, no matter what. (Fuchik)

Don’t believe in inspiration. Genius is patience, and genius is diligence. (Flaubert)

The impact of art must be put last. (Fumanov)

Don’t reveal your entire character all at once, but reveal it bit by bit and gradually in depth. (Fumanov)

Do you love life? So, don't waste your time. Because time is the stuff of life. (Franklin)

Those who pity you are not friends, but those who help you are friends.

(Fuller)

Creation is about innovation, picking up people's wisdom, and drawing over and over again, which is really boring. (Geng Linmang)