Different Quote by 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 my city's…

— Orhan Pamuk

When I decided to write a novel about Istanbul, I thought I should put the different faces of Istanbul into one book. I also…

— Burhan Sonmez

“There ́s a metaphor which I love: living like a drawing compass. As you know, one leg of the compass is static, rooted in…

— Elif Shafak

“..These exhibitions, and the stories behind them, should also in due course have their own catalogs and novels. As visitors admire the objects and…

— Orhan Pamuk

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

— Orhan Pamuk

The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They're…

— Orhan Pamuk

People feel that the beauty of the Istanbul is something we used to have in the past or something we will have in the…

— Burhan Sonmez

“From the first, Istanbul had given him the impression of a town where, with the night, horror creeps out of the stones. It seemed…

— Ian Fleming

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“In the Ottoman times, there were itinerant storytellers called "meddah. " They would go to coffee houses, where they would tell a story in…

— Elif Shafak

The great thing about really heightened historical dramas is that they can convey much larger themes.

— Cynthia Addai-Robinson

“It should have been the Arabian Nights, but to Bond, seeing it first above the tops of trams and above the great scars of…

— Ian Fleming