Books Quotes by Orhan Pamuk

Painting taught literature to describe.

— Orhan Pamuk

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

— Orhan Pamuk

Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

— Orhan Pamuk

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

When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was…

— Orhan Pamuk

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

— Orhan Pamuk

I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books.

— Orhan Pamuk

To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much…

— Orhan Pamuk

“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

The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.

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“If the lycée teachers studying this book in their class are now beginning to get nervous, they can advise the students to…

— Orhan Pamuk

“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

Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both…

— Orhan Pamuk

After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity…

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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

Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a…

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In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it…

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I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next…

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“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

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

“If you read a book set in Kars and put me in it, I'd like to tell your readers not to believe…

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“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

“Ferhat came in one evening with a book called Examples of Beautiful Love Letters and How to Write Them. To make sure…

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“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him…

— Orhan Pamuk

Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about…

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Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words."…

— Orhan Pamuk

“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

“Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even…

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“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him…

— Orhan Pamuk

“I’ll take all those crimes and robberies, wars and villagers, generals and crooks, that are asleep in the silence of the archives…

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“I hear the question upon your lips: What is it to be a colour? Colour is the touch of the eye, music…

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“...for a novel need not be full of sorrow just because its heroes are suffering.”

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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

I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels…

— Orhan Pamuk

My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.

— Orhan Pamuk

I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing…

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The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern…

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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming…

— Orhan Pamuk

'Snow' is my most popular book in the United States. But in Turkey, it was not as popular as 'My Name is…

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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