Writing Quotes by Orhan Pamuk

I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.

— Orhan Pamuk

I write a world where everyone is partly right.

— Orhan Pamuk

When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.

— Orhan Pamuk

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

— Orhan Pamuk

I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels... I keep my deep, radical things for my novels.

— Orhan Pamuk

I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about…

— Orhan Pamuk

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

— Orhan Pamuk

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

— Orhan Pamuk

I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely…

— Orhan Pamuk

I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books.

— Orhan Pamuk

I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next…

— Orhan Pamuk

Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.

— Orhan Pamuk

I'm a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can't hold…

— Orhan Pamuk

I am a highly disciplined person. I get up at seven every morning and, still in my pajamas, sit down at my…

— Orhan Pamuk

I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation…

— Orhan Pamuk

Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a…

— Orhan Pamuk

If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other…

— Orhan Pamuk

I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing…

— Orhan Pamuk

Nothing changed in my life since I work all the time," Pamuk said then. "I've spent 30 years writing fiction. For the…

— Orhan Pamuk

I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write because I want…

— Orhan Pamuk

“Conrad,Nabokov, Naipaul - these are writers known for having managed to migrate between languages, cultures, countries, continents, even civilizations. Their imaginations were…

— Orhan Pamuk

I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself…

— Orhan Pamuk

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

— Orhan Pamuk

Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about…

— Orhan Pamuk

Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words."…

— Orhan Pamuk

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

— Orhan Pamuk

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

— Orhan Pamuk

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

— Orhan Pamuk

[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation.

— Orhan Pamuk

I very much enjoy reading other writers' diaries, mainly because it makes me ask myself: Are they like you? How do they…

— Orhan Pamuk

“A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by…

— Orhan Pamuk

“After all, nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.”

— Orhan Pamuk

Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like…

— Orhan Pamuk

When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me…

— Orhan Pamuk

I consider myself Istanbul's storyteller. My subject matter is my town. I consider it my job to explore the hidden patterns of…

— Orhan Pamuk

I sometimes joke that I am the first writer of historical fiction who can look out his window and point to the…

— Orhan Pamuk

I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul.…

— Orhan Pamuk

When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are…

— Orhan Pamuk