"I learned to pay attention to the readers and not to the madness…Because to be a writer in Turkey is a bit like being kissed on one cheek and slapped on the other."
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On focusing on her readership in “Elif Shafak: ‘I thought the British were calm about politics. Not any longer’” in The Guardian (2019 Sep 16)
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