"I can't just toil away in one little space," he says. He prefers instead the traditional village lifestyle, rising at dawn and working till sunset, wresting his living from the mountains and the sea. But he still occasionally puts pen to paper. "I write real words drawn from real life," he says.
或許受到達悟文化薰陶和影響，夏曼藍波安不太適應「職業」、「賺錢」這些事，「我沒有辦法一直在一個空間工作，」他說，自己比較傾向於傳統部落日出而作、日落而息，以山海為勞動、生產場域，有時寫寫文章，「在真實的生活中去建構真實的文字」。