I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“After a time, my hand had become as skilled as my eyes. So if I was drawing a very fine tree, it… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“ALIF: Painting brings to life what the mind sees, as a feast for the eyes. LAM: What the eye sees in the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any.” — 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
