我在写作中,主要遇到五个问题:一写不熟悉的题材,行吗?题材与作家,有如木材之与木匠(这比喻未必恰当)。没有丰富多样的题材,作品内容一定受限制。我的笔尖就在这方面碰过壁。抗战前,我离开城市,住到农村,和农民接触较多,对他们的生活、习惯、思想、感情、痛苦、希望,和地主的阴险、刻薄、毒辣……知之较详。那时的作品,大都用农村题材写成。当时看到『北斗』,『文学月报』……等左翼刊物上,有写工人生活的作品,自己也认识了工人阶级的伟大和在革命 In my writing, I encountered five major problems: What do you know about unfamiliar subjects? Subjects and writers are like wood and carpenters (this metaphor may not be appropriate). There are no rich and varied themes, and the content of the works must be limited. My nib touched the wall in this area. Before the war of resistance, I left the city, lived in the countryside, and had more contact with the farmers. I knew more about their lives, their habits, their thoughts, their feelings, their pain, their hopes, and the sinister, insipid, and poisonous nature of the landlords.... Most of the works at that time were written in rural subjects. At the time, when he saw the “Beidou” and “Literature Monthly” ... and other left-wing publications, there were works that described the lives of workers, and they also recognized the greatness of the working class and the revolution.