Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The obj…

Stephen King
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Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story... To make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all. ✨ Stephen King (2002). On Writing, p.128, Simon and Schuster
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