Only the written word could express the feelings he experienced as a freedom fighter, first against the invaders and later against the Communists. Only in fiction could he begin to convey the human cost of his country's 20-year agony. His best-known novel, the 1958 epic Blue and Black, won worldwide fame through its many translations.
王藍在幼時立了不少志﹘﹘想繼承父業做工業家，或者做神氣的飛行員，或者做唱戲的也好﹘﹘那些孩提時代的夢，倒並沒有把「寫作」和「畫畫」包括在內。