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
capture love museum political politics wants
'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
jobs want novelists
More than anything I am a novelist. But for me, an author's job is not only to create linguistically accomplished works. As an author I also want to stimulate discussion.
writing turkeys want
I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about 40 languages. But I don't want to politicize things by dramatizing them.
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.
evil want way
I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
strong writing want
I don’t like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels … I keep my deep radical things for my novels.
giving-up hero want
My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
cities people want
I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
philosophy tree want
I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.
american-novelist elections figured hope improve point policy voters win
At some point they figured out that you can win elections with a pro-European policy because the voters hope this will improve their lives.
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I think perhaps it is a generational thing,
age announcing living means modernity notice themselves vanish
Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare.
five gives months pages people six
When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.
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When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel 'My Name is Red' - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it's doing in spite of my will, so to speak.