Top 50 Quotes by Orhan Pamuk

About Orhan Pamuk

These are some quotes by No-nationality author Orhan Pamuk Novelist, who was born on June 7, 1952.

Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.

Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.

Orhan Pamuk

When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.

When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.

Orhan Pamuk

I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

Orhan Pamuk

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.

Orhan Pamuk

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

Orhan Pamuk

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

Orhan Pamuk

Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.

Orhan Pamuk

The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.

The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.

Orhan Pamuk

From a very young age, I suspected there was more to my world than I could see: somewhere in the streets of Istanbul, in a house resembling ours, there lived another Orhan so much like me he could pass for my twin, even my double.

Orhan Pamuk

'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.

'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.

Orhan Pamuk

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