Jasmine Cresswell - Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week,...

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Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.

Jasmine Cresswell

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Natürlich plante ich den Großen Amerikanischen Roman zu schreiben; Das dauerte ungefähr eine Woche, und ich entschied, dass ich nichts zu sagen hatte, was sich qualifizieren könnte. Also schrieb ich stattdessen eine Romanze.

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