Bo Yang, on the other hand, believes that if everyone were skilled at wielding their pen, it would help to wards turning around the political climate, "for then if you wanted to push people around, you would first have to think hard about whether they might some day reveal your evil-doings in their memoirs!"
柏楊則認為，若是人人都能善用手中一枝筆，對於扭轉政壇風氣會有助益：「以後你要算計、欺負別人的時候，也要想想對方會不會有一天在回憶錄裡把你的惡行暴露出來？！」