Originally Posted by
Szar_Lakol
The difference is, a lot of people have asked if he's influenced by Pratchett, which makes a response in the negative from him a useful resource. No one, to my knowledge, has asked the same regarding the Art of War.
We don't have to exclude the entirety of the work that the Giant hasn't read, because people aren't asking about them. They have been asking about Pratchett, and there was a fairly high profile thread a while back about GRRM.