My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to… — 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
Heaven was the place where you kept alive the dreams of your memories. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I have the legacy of my father and his nocturnal automatic waking up. But I like those periods. I immediately have a… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“...at the end of the day there was nothing to be gained by reminding people that everything that had ever been written,… — 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
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
