For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
...every person has a star, every star has a friend, and for every person carrying a star there is someone else who… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
It may not happen in the first instant, but within ten minutes of meeting a man, a woman has a clear idea… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
We had no desire to live in Istanbul, nor in Paris or New York. Let them have their discos and dollars, their… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one," I said, amazed at the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another's heart? How much can we hope to understand those… — 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
