Way Quotes by Orhan Pamuk

Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.

— Orhan Pamuk

Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?

— Orhan Pamuk

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

— Orhan Pamuk

Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from…

— Orhan Pamuk

I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

— Orhan Pamuk

...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have…

— Orhan Pamuk

One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices,…

— Orhan Pamuk

My decision to view the world through novels, as it were, which is a typically European way of looking at things, became…

— Orhan Pamuk

Culture is mix. Culture means a mix of things from other sources. And my town, Istanbul, was this kind of mix. Istanbul,…

— Orhan Pamuk

Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that?…

— Orhan Pamuk

The bloody years of war and all the atrocities in European history have taught the Europeans that secular politics free of religious…

— Orhan Pamuk

Listen to me: Life is not about principles; it's about happiness.' 'But if you don't have any principles, and if you don't…

— Orhan Pamuk

When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one," I said, amazed at the…

— Orhan Pamuk