His career here had five distinct phases-ten years of fiction, ten years of essays, ten years of prison, five years as a columnist, and ten years of historiography-all of which brought him nothing but hardship.
來台後，柏楊的創作歷程可分成「10 年小說、10 年雜文、10 年牢獄、5 年專欄、10 年通鑑」等 5 個階段，而鬻文生涯帶給他的往往是苦難。