If your job, your advanced degree, or your unfinished novel has taken up some of the best years of your life, it doesn't make sense to give them even more years. That will only make you miserable.
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这是个不错的选择:在我25岁的时候,我就已经写完了两部小说,并且有了一个经纪人。
It was a good choice: by the time I was twenty-five, I'd already finished two novels and had an agent.
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正如弗兰克提到的,我去年已经写完了将近2000页,而我猜测其中的一些文章也许会被看做是小说。
As Frank reports, I have in the last year written around 2000 pages, and I suppose some of that, which seems to be fairly novel, might qualify.