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.
Fordi alt jeg leste var bøker som hadde utenlandske personer, var jeg overbevist om at bøker, i deres natur, måtte ha utenlandske karakterer i dem, og måtte handle om ting som jeg personlig ikke kunne identifisere meg selv med.