How Can I Avoid Influence?

"i'm not worried about influence. I would love to be influenced by them," says the author of a new book on cultural history. "It's just that it's fucking with your head now, and so for your own health, just stop listening to them", he adds. The last piece of advice is something you already know: You have to write badly in order to get good writing from someone else.

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