"First, I would find an object which I……" — Orhan Pamuk
"First, I would find an object which I would think is suitable for my characters and stories, then write about it, and in the end, I ended up with a house full of thousands of objects."
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156 Quotes by Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk has 156 quotes on this site.
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The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.
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If the Americans would only take all the money they have spent on this war (Iraq), and spend it like…
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Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that…
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Snow reminds Ka of God! But I’m not sure it would be accurate. What brings me close to God is…
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To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must,…
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Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.
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To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book:…
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Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace…
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Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value…
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about…
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Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.
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You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
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Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These…
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I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political…
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All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which…
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
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For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search…
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I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.
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I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it…
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I don't have acknowledged preferences of characters.
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