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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“...for a novel need not be full of sorrow just because its heroes are suffering.” — 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“If you think you are better than Stork, then by all means, get hold of me.” — 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 find a… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
