Now the part about his life in Chicago was I'm going to keep doing this, call it the novel versus the autobiography, and I'll explain why I make that mistake a little later--it was cut from the autobiography.

他在芝加哥的生活那部分,我会一直把这书叫做小说，而不是自传,我之后会解释为什么犯这样的错误,这书是从自传的一部分。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

One of the things Gandhi said, that he talked about is from his wonderful autobiography, "My experiment with truth"-- " "Be the change you want to see in the world."

甘地说过一件事，出自他的精彩自传，《我的对于真理的实践经历》,“成为你想在世上见到的改变“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Well, Wright himself described that difficulty of writing his autobiography, and these are the terms he used: I found that to tell the truth is the hardest thing on earth, harder than fighting in a war, harder than taking part in a revolution.

莱特自己描述了,自传写作的艰辛，他如是说：,“我发现说真话是世界上最难的事，比参加战争难，比参加革命难，如果尝试写自传。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选