Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk
Ferit Orhan Pamukis a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, his work has sold over thirteen million books in sixty-three languages, making him the country's best-selling writer...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 June 1952
CityIstanbul, Turkey
snow silence would-be
Snow reminds Ka of God! But I’m not sure it would be accurate. What brings me close to God is the silence of snow.
country war years
If the Americans would only take all the money they have spent on this war (Iraq), and spend it like Soros has done on civil societies in these countries, then in 10 years they would have wonderful results.
men snow silence
The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.
dream memories heaven
Heaven was the place where you kept alive the dreams of your memories.
book hard-work eight
I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so hard, didn't drink, didn't enjoy life.
happy-life very-happy knows
Let everyone know, I lived a very happy life.
book thinking way
Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.
use calendars forgotten
Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them.
new-york heart color
We had no desire to live in Istanbul, nor in Paris or New York. Let them have their discos and dollars, their skycrapers and supersonics transports. Let them have their radios and their color TV, hey, we have ours, don't we? But we have something they don't have. Heart. We have heart. Look, look how the light of life seeps into my very heart
sorry responsibility years
Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding togetherness, and was sorry not to have known more of it in his life.
body wells bottom
I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.
taught literature painting
Painting taught literature to describe.
character men honest
For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so laden with virtues that they never know success in life.
being-yourself want said
What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?' Be yourself,' said Ipek.