Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words."… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“In those moments, he would realize that this city where he’d spent forty years of his life, where he’d passed through thousands… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“when we reach the point when our lives take on their final shape as in a novel we can identify our happiest… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“...no one recognises the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“This is the greatest consolation in life. In poetically well-built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding… — 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
