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Richard Osman's love of language

Word of Mouth

CHAPTER

The Imitate Invent Principle

I'm very visually impaired. So it's really difficult for me to pick up a book or certainly when I was a kid and read it. But yeah, I would love adventure stories and things like that. It was only in my early twenties where I started probably picking up books. You're working to the imitate invent principle. What you're doing is hearing or reading or seeing. And then you're imitating it, but you're twisting it and inventing your own version of it. My experience has been the more rules you know, the freer you are,. Because you can still break rules, but actually knowing them gives you other ways to break them.

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