The age of "grand writings" is over, and in the nineties with its clamor of myriad voices, fiction is just fiction. Novels can't save the nation, nor can they change people's lives.
「大說大講」的時代已經過去了，在九○年代眾聲喧譁的時代裡，小說就是小說，小說救不了國的，小說不可能改變人生。