At 17, one of her essays was published in the literary supplement of the Central Daily News, prompting her mother to comment, “ Now you can start paying for your own education! ” This irritated her no end, since she never viewed writing as a means to earning a living, but rather as an end in itself.
，讓她大為生氣，氣的是自己「不會為賺錢而寫文章」，「想寫而寫」才是她的堅持。