In the end, it was his wife's tenderness that inspired him to take up writing again. He began writing poems and essays, and in 1982 he published a collection of essays called Farmer's Wife. The following year, Reader's Digest magazine put together a condensed version and published it as an 18-page booklet in 16 languages.
最後，妻子的柔情勸說讓他重拾寫作，一面寫詩，一面投身散文創作，1982 出版散文集《農婦》，隔年，讀者文摘雜誌將全書濃縮，以 18 頁篇幅刊載，並以 16 國文字發行全世界。