“My idea about influence is this: I go to a bookshop, I look at a book, which I haven’t read, and look at the cover and the success or whatever an interesting book and I begin to project my idea of that book. I haven’t read that book. I think and think and think so much about that book – which I never read and I don’t know what’s about – but I fancy about that book and I am later influenced from my fancy of that book.” (Orhan Pamuk)

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