Phrase by 'Orhan Pamuk'
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The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
Author: Orhan Pamuk - NovelistNever , Secret , Inspiration , Patience
I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.
Author: Orhan Pamuk - NovelistSometimes , Feel , Stupid , Speak
The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
Author: Orhan Pamuk - NovelistMistake , Power , Alone , Religion
I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
Author: Orhan Pamuk - NovelistBeing , See , Future , Europe
'Snow' is my most popular book in the United States. But in Turkey, it was not as popular as 'My Name is Red,' or even 'The Museum of Innocence,' because the secular leaders didn't want this bourgeois Orhan trying to understand these head-scarf girls.
Author: Orhan Pamuk - NovelistName , Book , Understand , Red
I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me.
Author: Orhan Pamuk - NovelistYou , Me , Sleep , Imagination
Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.
Author: Orhan Pamuk - NovelistYou , Know , Good , Understand
I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.
Author: Orhan Pamuk - NovelistHappy , Future , Painting , Red
Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person singular because I have to imitate accurately the voice of someone who is not like me. The third-person singular gives me an authority over a character.
Author: Orhan Pamuk - NovelistMe , People , Political , Character
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 clandestine corners, its shady, mysterious places, the things I love.
Author: Orhan Pamuk - NovelistLove , Myself , Job , City
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