Trying Quote 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

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

— Orhan Pamuk

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

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

— Orhan Pamuk

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

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

— Orhan Pamuk

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

— Orhan Pamuk

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

— Orhan Pamuk

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

— Orhan Pamuk

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

Love is a sacred silence.

— Orhan Pamuk

“Creíamos saber mucho, pero no sabíamos nada. ”

— Orhan Pamuk