Where Quotes by Orhan Pamuk

8 Where quotes by Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk’s literary reflections on 'where' appear in eight short quotes. This modest set provides a quick glimpse of his evocative storytelling.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that…

Orhan Pamuk

Image

I write a world where everyone is partly right.

Orhan Pamuk

Image

The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his…

Orhan Pamuk

Image

Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and…

Orhan Pamuk

Image

A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives…

Orhan Pamuk

Image

I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to…

Orhan Pamuk

Image

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

Orhan Pamuk

Image

I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from…

Orhan Pamuk

Image

Other authors on Where

More by Orhan Pamuk

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

Image

I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.

Orhan Pamuk

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

Image

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

Orhan Pamuk

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

Image

I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.

Orhan Pamuk

Image

“...love is deep attention, deep compassion...”

Orhan Pamuk

Image

Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

Orhan Pamuk

Image

“If you think you are better than Stork, then by all means, get hold of me.”

Orhan Pamuk

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

Image

Love is a sacred silence.

Orhan Pamuk

Image

“Creíamos saber mucho, pero no sabíamos nada. ”

Orhan Pamuk

Image

“- Za nas je otkucaj sata, baš kao žuvor šadrvana u dvorištu džamije, odjek zakoračenja u ono što je u nama, a ne zvuk…

Orhan Pamuk

Image

“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he…

Orhan Pamuk

Image

“Near Taksim he suddenly found himself inside a crowd of people leaving a movie theater. They were staring straight ahead, as if in a…

Orhan Pamuk

Image