The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them. (Mark Haddon)

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.

Mark Haddon

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