When you love a city and have explored it frequently on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, gets to know… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street… — 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
“And before long, the music, the views rushing past the window, my fathers voice and the narrow cobblestone streets all merged into… — 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
