لأن كل ما كنت قد قرأته كانت كتباً كانت فيها الشخصيات أجنبية، وقد كنت مقتنعة بأن الكتب، بطبيعتها، يجب أن تحتوي على أجانب فيها، ويجب أن تكون حول أشياء قد لا يمكنني شخصياً معرفتها.
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.