Literary doyen Yeh Shih-t'ao recalls, "Before, when writing serious art, one would have to hold back one's pen to avoid provocative topics."
「以前寫嚴肅的藝術小說，往往要筆下保留，避免刺激性題材」，從日據時代就寫作不輟的台灣文學耆宿葉石濤就曾有這種尷尬和顧忌。