I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience. β¨ Mark Twain, Hamlin Lewis Hill (1967). Mark Twain's Letters to His Publishers, 1867-1894, p.314, Univ of California Press
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