translation.en: 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.
translation.zh: 因为我当时读的所有书中 只有外国人物， 我因而坚信：书要想被称为书， 就必须有外国人在里面， 就必须是关于 我无法亲身体验的事情。