“...no one recognises the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“The future of a society was not determined by the traits its members shared but rested entirely on their differences” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
My diary has its own kind of magic. It gives me the feeling of having accomplished something. On days when I don't… — 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
“when we reach the point when our lives take on their final shape as in a novel we can identify our happiest… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living… — 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
“In those moments, he would realize that this city where he’d spent forty years of his life, where he’d passed through thousands… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“In twenty years’ time—in other words, when you’re thirty-seven years old—you will have understood at last that all the evil in the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle… — 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
“Another time he told me about two mountains—one of cork, the other of marble—which had spent thousands of years staring at each… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“As in many other cities, money no longer had any value in Istanbul. At the time I returned from the East, bakeries… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Nothing changed in my life since I work all the time," Pamuk said then. "I've spent 30 years writing fiction. For the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be that, in… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“My prolonged study of these photographs led me to appreciate the importance of preserving certain moments for prosperity, and as time moved… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“You'll forget it all: the cruel power of your superiors, the thoughtless things you wish you'd never said, the stupidities, the unfinished… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“After a time, my hand had become as skilled as my eyes. So if I was drawing a very fine tree, it… — 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
“People might feel sorry for a man who's fallen on hard times, but when an entire nation is poor, the rest of… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“There was still plenty of time to spare when Çetin Efendi dropped my parents and me at the revolving doors, which were… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“They, like me, like all of us, had, once upon a time, in a past so far away it seemed like heaven,… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“with a sad smile she would recount the time our grandfather was so displeased with our grandmother’s okra stew that in a… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“This is the greatest consolation in life. In poetically well-built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding… — 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
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
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
