In April 2003 at a book-launch for Nanfang Shuo's latest work, Magical Eyes, his old friend Liao Hsien-hao, the new director of the Taipei City Cultural Affairs 'Bureau, described him as "a symbol of all things related to reading."
在今年四月南方朔的新書《魔幻之眼》發表會上，他的老朋友──新上任的文化局長廖咸浩說，南方朔就是「與讀書有關的象徵」。