The explosion of new publications and the expansion of the old have created an insatiable demand for writing. (Chinese newspapers carry serialized literature daily.) A mentality of settling for whatever's available has set in.
「寫作不是工廠式的生產，如果作家隨波逐流，不能把持嚴格的自我要求，作品永遠無法進步」，目前從商、自稱「談文學已經沒什麼興致」的黃春明，在說到年輕一代作家的功利取向時，也不禁激動起來。