Surprisingly, this author from rural Taiwan loves classical Chinese literature, especially the late-Ming-Dynasty author Kong Shangren's The Peach Blossom Fan, a historical play about the love between essayist Hou Fangyu and the renowned prostitute Li Xiangjun set against the backdrop of the rise and fall of the Southern Ming Dynasty. Sung admires its marvelous wordplay, and keeps a much thumbed copy by his bed to this day.
事實上，這位生長於台灣農村的作家，最愛的竟是中國古典文學，其中尤以明末文人孔尚任（1648－1718）以侯方域與秦淮名妓李香君的愛情故事、反映南明一代興亡的歷史劇《桃花扇》，神乎其技的文字技巧與修辭，至今仍是他反覆閱讀的枕邊書。