那一刻，我知道，即便我只卖出这一本书，我四年的写作也有了回报。

In that moment, I knew if I never sold another copy of the book, my four years of writing it had served its purpose.

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在普林斯顿大学的四年里，村上写完了他最著名的小说《奇鸟行状录》，在一次采访中，村上这样描述他的写作过程，“我很享受写作，因为我不知道到底能写成什么样子”。

During the four years he spent at Princeton, Murakami wrote one of his best-known novels, “The Wind-UpBird Chronicle.” In an interview with Salon, Murakami described the processof writing the book.

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