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 Copy Share Image
The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from… — 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
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 have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“...it seemed to me that the entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and… — 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
