Because all I had read were books in which characters were foreign, I had become convinced that books by their very nature had to have foreigners in them and had to be about things with which I could not personally identify.
Eftersom allt jag hade läst var böcker med utländska karaktärer, blev jag övertygad om att böcker, till sin natur, måste ha utlänningar som karaktärer, och de måste handla om saker som jag inte kunde identifiera mig med.