Li Jui-teng, who is much concerned with these ECM writers, believes, "Of course, in literature, you must be concerned with where you are, but when you are writing, you also cannot escape where you came from."
關心這批馬華作家的李瑞騰認為，「文學，當然要關心腳下的土地，但是創作無法脫離作者生命的特質。」