Best Orhan Pamuk Lines
- Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey. Bad
- Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages,… Alive
- Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility. Fiction
- At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life. Age
- Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture. Class
- I write a world where everyone is partly right. Everyone
- When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing. Definitely
- Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to… Authoritarianism
- Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always… Always Contrasted
- Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person… Accurately
- I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular. Always Enjoy
- I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in… Art
- I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing. Care
- The fueling of anti-Turkish sentiment in Europe is resulting in an anti-European, indiscriminate nationalism in Turkey. Anti
- Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation. Astounding
- Let us say in the pocket of one of my old coats I find a movie ticket from many years ago. Once I see the… Ago
- I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels -… Feeling
- I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that… Broken
- A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday… Communicate
- Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images… Culture
- When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57… Any
- Culture is mix. Culture means a mix of things from other sources. And my town, Istanbul, was this kind of mix. Istanbul, in fact, and… Anarchic
- Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it. Feel
- My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I… Attached
- I have the legacy of my father and his nocturnal automatic waking up. But I like those periods. I immediately have a different vision of… Automatic
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