“From early on, I was nourished in a literary way. I didn't realize that there was a writer already living in me”

— Geling Yan

Source: "Turning Loss into Beauty: The Tragedies of Geling Yan" in The Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB930264290705115630 (25 June 1999)

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