China Daily note that Wang Wen-hsing [王文興] is giving a Literary lecture -- in which he's going to discuss his unusual approach to writing:
He locks himself in his house, reading and thinking, for 22 hours in a day and then uses two hours polishing the 35 words to perfection, he says.Yes:
While some writers work out a thousand words in a day, Wang insists on writing only 35 every day. He spent 25 years writing his famous book, The Man Against the Sea.(The Man Against the Sea has been translated into English -- and is under review at the complete review -- as Backed Against the Sea.)