I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English. (Jasper Fforde)

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

Jasper Fforde

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