Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my… — 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
I consider myself a person who comes from a Muslim culture. In any case, I would not say that I'm an atheist.… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I am a highly disciplined person. I get up at seven every morning and, still in my pajamas, sit down at my… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
In the mornings I used to say goodbye to my wife like someone going to work. I'd leave the house, walk around… — 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
