Mark Billingham - I do have a touch of OCD, and I used to obsess about research. But I'm better ...

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I do have a touch of OCD, and I used to obsess about research. But I'm better than I was. Gone are the days when I would drive to a set of traffic lights to find out if you could turn left. I finally realised it didn't matter. A book will not stand or fall on whether or not there's a branch of Starbucks in Brixton.

Mark Billingham

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Ich habe einen Hauch OCD, und ich war besessen von Forschung. Aber ich bin besser als ich war. Vorbei sind die Tage, an denen ich zu einer Ampel fuhr, um herauszufinden, ob Sie links abbiegen könnten. Ich merkte schließlich, dass es keine Rolle spielte. Ein Buch wird nicht darauf stehen oder fallen, ob es eine Zweigstelle von Starbucks in Brixton gibt oder nicht.

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