“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I sometimes joke that I am the first writer of historical fiction who can look out his window and point to the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
'Snow' is my most popular book in the United States. But in Turkey, it was not as popular as 'My Name is… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The truly great books are always novels: 'Anna Karenina,' 'The Brothers Karamazov,' 'The Magic Mountain.' Just as with 'Shahnameh,' I browse these… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
More than anything I am a novelist. But for me, an author's job is not only to create linguistically accomplished works. As… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“I always think that it's wrong to put images of my protagonists on the cover of my novels because readers can identify… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words."… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
We live but for a short time, we see but very little, and we know almost nothing; so, at least, let's do… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
My decision to view the world through novels, as it were, which is a typically European way of looking at things, became… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern… — 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
