2012年12月7日,莫言在瑞典皇家学院发表《讲故事的人》的演讲时说:“我是一个讲故事的人。因为讲故事我获得了诺贝尔文学奖。”“今后的岁月里,我将继续讲我的故事。”也是在这篇演讲中,莫言谈到了自己的创作经验,“一个人在日常生活中应该谦卑退让,但在文学创作中,必须颐指气使,独断专行”。莫言还曾多次谈到,他总以“作为老百姓”的叙事身份在讲故事,既然是“作 On December 7, 2012, Mo Yan delivered a speech titled ”The Storyteller“ at the Royal Swedish Academy: ”I am a storyteller, and for the story I got the Nobel Prize in Literature.“ ” I will continue to tell my story. “It is also in this speech, Mo Yan talked about his own creative experience, ” A person in the daily life should be humiliated concessions, but in literary creation, you must instruct you, Autocratic“. Mo Yan also said many times that he always telling stories as ”the common people“, since it is ”