《知识分子写真》内容包括：狂人卢梭，透明度下看萨特，我小说写的以观察到的人生为基础，我是一个回到黑暗时代去的作家，作家最痛苦的莫大于不能再写作，我为自己和文学而写作，写个好剧本是件了不起的事，我心目中没有理想的读者，我的一生是个退避者的一生，作家顶多只能改变读者的阅读习惯，斯诺家书，今日红色中国，红星照耀世界，代拟退稿信数则，古今禁书，翻译家如是说等。(This book contains: describe the fanatic Rousseau; look at Sartre from a transparent perspective; my novels are based on the observed life; I am a writer returning to the dark ages; for a writer, the most painful is to not write any more; I write for myself and literature; it is very great to write a good play; there are not any ideal readers in my eyes; all my life is about a retiring person; the writer changes the reading habit of readers at most only. It also contains Snow's letters, today's red China, red star over the world, draft of some rejection letters for others, officially banned books in ancient times and today, and stories about translators, etc. )