“this, then, is how we first came across the fearsome secret history of turkey's mannequins.” — 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 wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or… — 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
One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices,… — 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
Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that?… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The bloody years of war and all the atrocities in European history have taught the Europeans that secular politics free of religious… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Throughout history, religious leaders and other honorable men of conscience have always warned against this shaming confusion. They remind us that the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“In my view, the West is not a concept to be explored, analyzed, or enlarged through a study of the history and… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“I am speaking of the evenings when the sun sets early, of the fathers under the streetlamps in the back streets returning… — 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
