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 Copy Share Image
A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from… — 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
She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place,… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
When Turkey began approaching the EU, I wasn't the only one who worried that the dark stain in Turkey's history - or… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“The sight of snow made her think how beautiful and short life is and how, in spite of all their enmities, people… — 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
For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another's heart? How much can we hope to understand those… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world… — 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
Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
My decision to view the world through novels, as it were, which is a typically European way of looking at things, became… — 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
