When Jin Yong's elder brother was attending university in Shanghai, he often used his food money to buy books by such authors as Mao Dun, Lu Xun, Ba Jin and Lao She. By the end of his grade-school years, Jin Yong had already read quite a number of novels.
金庸哥哥在上海念大學，常拿吃飯的錢去買茅盾、魯迅、巴金、老舍等人的書，他在小學期間，已經讀過不少小說。