It's what allowed you to speak so powerfully to people in your first novel, and you've always wanted to write an autobiography.

让你在第一本小说里,掷地有声地向人们说话,所以你想写自传。

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Let me just also say there are a thousand things to talk about in this novel, so I hope you'll get to some of them in section. And if you want to write about this, it's a very rich novel for writing your papers.

我想说在这本书中有很多东西可以探讨,我希望你们能够在一些章节中想想,如果你想要写一些关于这方面的东西，这是一本很能够丰富你们文章的书。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Crushing your computer, or whatever it is that you do as you write the great American novel.

砸碎电脑，随便你想怎样,当你创作最伟大的美国小说时。

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The first impulse to write this novel is described as a throb.

写这本小说的第一冲动就被描绘成悸动。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Whatever you think those are. Here, you might imagine different people disagreeing about-- oh, but throw in something--but if what you want to do is write the great American novel, then you've got the experience of staying up late at night not knowing how to make the plot work out, crushing pieces of paper and throwing them away.

你能想到的都在里面，可能有人不同意-,插入某某东西，比如你想,创作最伟大的美国小说，于是你获得熬夜的体验,纠结于如何构建情节，撕碎稿纸，扔在一边。

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