Patrick deWitt - At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn...

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At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.

Patrick deWitt

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Im Alter von siebzehn Jahren entschied ich, dass ich mein Leben damit verbringen würde, Fiktion zu schreiben. Ich wusste nicht genau, was das zur Folge hatte - ein Zimmer, vermutete ich. Ein Raum und Bücher und Papier und Einsamkeit.

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