Ten years ago, Little Yeh, a friend and fellow writer, joked to Wu: "You claim to know a lot about Taiwan's fiction and film. Then how is it you've never heard of Wu Nien-chen?"
作家小野十多年前曾經這麼半開玩笑、半認真地消遣他這位好友：「你要瞭解台灣的小說和電影，竟然不認識吳念真？」