Culture is mix. Culture means a mix of things from other sources. And my town, Istanbul, was this kind of mix. Istanbul,… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul.… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I consider myself Istanbul's storyteller. My subject matter is my town. I consider it my job to explore the hidden patterns of… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
It was in Cihangir that i first learned Istanbul was not an anonymous multitude of walled-in lives - a jungle of apartments… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I think perhaps it is a generational thing. I talk to younger people and they say, Where is this melancholy city you… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
From a very young age, I suspected there was more to my world than I could see: somewhere in the streets of… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“I am speaking of the evenings when the sun sets early, of the fathers under the streetlamps in the back streets returning… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Istanbul is certainly in the process of transforming itself into an attractive cultural, tourist and financial center. But there are also millions… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
National consciousness is truly a miraculous thing. When I am not in Turkey I feel even more Turkish than in Istanbul. But… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care… — 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 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
Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture. — 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
