She says that if she were imprisoned for some reason and only allowed to bring one book, she would bring a dictionary. So naturally focused is she in temperament and so exhaustive in her approach to learning that even now she still enjoys flipping through a dictionary.
也許是天生的追根究柢精神，張曉風說，如果有天自己進了監獄只准帶一本書，她的唯一選擇將是「字典」，這也是她至今仍時時翻閱、永遠翻不膩的。