But once a person becomes a noted author, there is a price to be paid. A certain amount of creative freedom is lost. Author Tsai Chih-heng agrees with this assessment. With his first novel, The First Intimate Contact, he hewed very close to his own personal experiences and emotions, but subsequent writings have had much less to do with his own life.
蔡智恆同意這樣的說法，他表示，除了第一部作品《第一次的親密接觸》最是貼近自己的生活與情感外，他之後再寫的東西就以虛構的成分居多。