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
Heaven was the place where you kept alive the dreams of your memories. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“My prolonged study of these photographs led me to appreciate the importance of preserving certain moments for prosperity, and as time moved… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it… — 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
“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
