When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, 'Look, how much are you willing to risk emotionally to write? How careful can you be with the other people you're writing about?'

当你教授创造性的非小说类作品时，以一种非常开放的方式来描述你的生活是有帮助的，因为你可以说，‘看，你愿意在情感上冒多大的风险来写作?你能对你所写的其他人多小心呢?”