When she was a middle-school student, she loved the passionate idealism of Russian authors Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Turgenev, but perhaps because of the passage of time or the changes in her life, she now finds herself gravitating towards Su Dongpo, Xin Jiaxuan, and Lu You, who wrote more approachable works reflecting daily life.
也許是時過境遷，也是生命風景不同，張曉風說中學時喜歡俄國作家如托爾斯泰、杜斯妥也夫斯基及屠格涅夫等激情式的理想主義作品，但現在反而比較喜歡像蘇東坡、辛稼軒及陸游等，很平實反映生活、更自在也自由的作品。