One Sentence Is Ten Thousand Sentences

{{Short description|Chinese novel by Liu Zhenyun}}

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One Sentence Is Ten Thousand Sentences{{cite book|last1=Liu|first1=Zhenyun|title=One Sentence Is Ten Thousand Sentences|publisher=Changjiang Literature and Art Press|isbn=7535439764 }} is a novel written by Liu Zhenyun from 2006 to 2008. It was awarded the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2011.

It depicts the futility of a search for love among a group of lower class people over the span of two generations.{{Cite book |last=Wang |first=David Der-wei |author-link=David Der-wei Wang |title=Red Legacies in China: Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution |date=2016 |publisher=Harvard University Asia Center |isbn=978-0-674-73718-1 |editor-last=Li |editor-first=Jie |series=Harvard Contemporary China Series |volume= |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |chapter=Red Legacies in Fiction |doi= |jstor= |editor-last2=Zhang |editor-first2=Enhua}}{{Rp|page=199}} Although the character's lives are boisterous, they experience profound loneliness.{{Rp|page=199}}

The phrase "One Sentence for ten thousand sentences" frames the novel and is a quotation from Lin Biao shortly before the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.{{Rp|page=199}}

The novel has been adapted into a 2016 film Someone to Talk To, directed by Liu Zhenyun's daughter Liu Yulin.