Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels... I keep my deep, radical things for my novels. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny,… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“According to my father, the greatest happiness in life was to marry the girl you'd spent your youth reading books with in… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“But no one believes in that way what he reads in a novel...Oh yes they do. If only to see themselves as… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Because, as I would always tell myself so many years later, lying here in my bed: You can't start out again in… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“If you read a book set in Kars and put me in it, I'd like to tell your readers not to believe… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I'm a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can't hold… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“You cannot embark on life, that one-off coach ride, once again when it is over, but if you have a book in… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Ferhat came in one evening with a book called Examples of Beautiful Love Letters and How to Write Them. To make sure… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“I hear the question upon your lips: What is it to be a colour? Colour is the touch of the eye, music… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“I’ll take all those crimes and robberies, wars and villagers, generals and crooks, that are asleep in the silence of the archives… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“...for a novel need not be full of sorrow just because its heroes are suffering.” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“If the lycée teachers studying this book in their class are now beginning to get nervous, they can advise the students to… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write because I want… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share
I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share
I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share
I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about 40 languages.… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share
“If you think you are better than Stork, then by all means, get hold of me.” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share
I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely find a… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share
“- Za nas je otkucaj sata, baš kao žuvor šadrvana u dvorištu džamije, odjek zakoračenja u ono što je u nama, a ne zvuk… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share
“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share
“Near Taksim he suddenly found himself inside a crowd of people leaving a movie theater. They were staring straight ahead, as if in a… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share
