Besides this, her fluent, colloquial English must be another reason for the book's success. Nien Cheng says that she can't remember everything that was said at the time, but only the gist.
對於這一點，鄭念認為，除了自己本來就不愛講大道理，其他實在全無技巧，因為這段經歷的本身，已經夠戲劇化了。此外，簡明流利的口語化英文，當是暢銷的原因之一。