Quotable

"If I have to choose one person that best represents my generation of writers, that's Di An. In terms of the capability of telling heart-gripping stories with exceptional techniques, I'm 200 percent sure that none of our generation could do better than Di An. If you have any doubt about this, find the answer in the Memory in the City of Dragon trilogy."

Guo Jingming, writer

"There are elements of traditional literature in Di An's works, such as the complex relations in a large family, struggles between men and women, desire and self-pity. What is amazing is not the existence of these elements, but her narrative shell that encloses all."

Liu Heng, writer and deputy chairman of the Chinese Writers' Association

(China Daily 08/24/2012 page36)