The writer’s secret is not inspiration – for it is never clear where it comes from – it is his stubbornness, his patience. Orhan Pamuk Read Quote
If a writer is to tell his own story – tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people – if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art – this craft – he must first have been given some hope. Orhan Pamuk Read Quote
I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I’ve read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire in a person courage, intellect, hard work. These are the qualities I admire in an intellectual, in a writer, and there are so many people who have these things. Orhan Pamuk Read Quote
I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don’t feel that I’m working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I’m playing. Orhan Pamuk Read Quote
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. Orhan Pamuk Read Quote
When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author. Orhan Pamuk Read Quote
I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there. Orhan Pamuk Read Quote
