"The hero of the book does long to……" — Orhan Pamuk

"The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western."

— Orhan Pamuk

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156 Quotes by Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk has 156 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.
If the Americans would only take all the money they have spent on this war (Iraq), and spend it like…
Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that…
Snow reminds Ka of God! But I’m not sure it would be accurate. What brings me close to God is…
To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must,…
Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.
To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book:…
Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace…
Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?
I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value…
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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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
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Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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