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Work Quotes by 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 first 10 years…
- In the mornings I used to say goodbye to my wife like someone going to work. I'd leave the house, walk around a few blocks,…
- All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.
- Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words." From the moment…
- I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
- I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next eight novels I…
- Turks have a dismissive phrase: he works like a clerk. I have turned this insult around: I am proud to say that I work like…
- 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…
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach