The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
If Turkey become a member of the EU, of course Turks would lose a part of this identity, just as Europe would… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I… — 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
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
