Everyone who has read Liu's The Lives along the Tamshui River, a collection of her writings and illustrations, praises her poetic prose. She herself says that her greatest ambition is to live an "artistic and literary life." Viewed from an aesthetic distance, even life's most bitter moments can be beautiful.
看過她的圖文集《淡水味覺》的人，都會為她充滿詩意的文字叫好，她則說自己最想過的，就是一種「藝術的人生」、「文學的人生」，隔著藝術的距離透視人生，再大再重的苦難，也變美了。