When others called me foolish, she told me to go ahead, to write my first novel during the two years after Dan died instead of taking a real job.

在丹死后的这两年我想写自己的第一部小说，而不要去找工作。 当有人说我愚蠢的时候，珍妮告诉我要坚持。

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It would be several years, however, before the novel was completed.

然而，这部小说的完成却是几年以后的事。

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But those were mostly contemporary imprints from the last couple of years-say, the latest Stephen King novel.

不过广泛被借阅的大多都是近期的当代文学作品，比如史蒂芬·金的小说。

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It took her seven years to write the novel.

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And there you are, and, for the next 40 years, no one ever sees the novel that you wrote, or the autobiography that you wrote originally.

就这样，在这之后的40年里，没有人看到你写的小说，或者你最初的自传。

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He began researching the book in 2001, and threw himself into the novel during the last two years of his life.

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And you demonstrate this by citing the climax of the novel and not the multitude of years preceding it where Roark is continuously mistreated for having talent and integrity.

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