Read Something Else
1st July 2016 | for Creatives | reading, create for YOURSELF, writing, Dean Young |
"The reader is free to stop reading, to close the book, to not buy the book. That reader's frustrations are entirely valid, and that reader should read something else. I just put it out there, and it is what it is."
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