The writer part of him reads books willy-nilly as he happens upon them, but the scholar in him adopts an entirely different approach. Take literary history, for instance. He has studied it all, whether he is enamored of the period or not.
作家的他讀書隨興之所至，不成系統；學者的他則不然，比如講授文學通史，歡喜與不歡喜的都必須讀而研之。