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Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk
Novelist
Born: Jun 7, 1952
Life Me People Political Work Writing
Related authors: Charles Dickens Ernest Hemingway Gustave Flaubert James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Paulo Coelho Walter Scott
One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way. Orhan Pamuk
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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
Work Hard Work Courage Humanity People World Heroes Believe Admire Writer Know Qualities Read Intellect Intellectual Lot Person So Many People Where Hard Who Many Moments Things
Let us say in the pocket of one of my old coats I find a movie ticket from many years ago. Once I see the ticket, not only do I remember that I saw this movie, but also scenes from this movie, which I think I have entirely forgotten, come back to me. Objects have this power, and I like it. Orhan Pamuk
Me Remember Old Power Think Back Once Saw Say Find See Pocket Entirely Objects Only Scenes Come Like Ticket Also Years Years Ago Forgotten Movie Which Us Coats Many Let Us
A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects. Orhan Pamuk
Communicate Just Be Everyday Our Our Lives Objects Through Just Where Place Fancy Should Paintings Lives Museum
The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power. Orhan Pamuk
People King Power Pedestal Later Collecting About Inventing Civilization Attachment Habit Could Put Western Western Civilization Trait Essential Human Representing Things Museums
When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end. Orhan Pamuk
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I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi. Orhan Pamuk
Life Love Me Natural Humanity Writing Will Somebody Live Definitely City About Delhi Write He Know Also Course Because Am Came Istanbul His Formed Across Lived
I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries. Orhan Pamuk
Future See Countries Prosperous Democratic Being Turkey Europe Tolerant Many
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
Me You Thought Partner Imagination Details Somehow Rituals Write Share Always Demon Domestic Where Place Separate Should Your Sleep
For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity. Orhan Pamuk
Me Democracy Respect Rights Dignity People Free Free Speech System About Consuming Goods Fanciful Speech
We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy. Orhan Pamuk
Love Unhappy Fall More Deeply
My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west. Orhan Pamuk
Hero Value Too Give He Came West Up Want Wants Things Belong
The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup. Orhan Pamuk
Political Challenge Conviction Find Abhorrent Voices Coup Islamists Advocate Officers Whether Which Lend Justifying Personally Views Even
These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented. Orhan Pamuk
People Political Poverty Feeling Society Because Being Movements Turkish Flourish Margins
The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation. Orhan Pamuk
Imitation Tried Always Opponents Process Poor Vilify
I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city. Orhan Pamuk
People State City Want Psychological Certain Describe
I don't judge my characters. Orhan Pamuk
Judge Characters
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
Work Me Healthy Think Feel Hours Disciplined Always Lot Child Should Working Novelists Playing
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
Good Me Walk Sentiment Hesitate Books Alive Out Bad Give Give Me House Joys Also Coming Just Stop Being Movie Depress Notice Pages Novels Film
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. Orhan Pamuk
Good You Too Others OK Out Bad See Fact Good Thing Clearly Know Because Understand How Get Manage In Fact Mechanism Helps Thing
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
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People look at me as sort of a diplomat for Turkey, which by nature, I'm not; I don't want to be. It's again about that playfulness. Being Turkey's voice or representative is not playful, it's not childlike; it makes me self-conscious, kills the child in me. Orhan Pamuk
Nature Me People Diplomat About Voice Self-Conscious Look Sort Makes Child Representative Being Childlike Want Which Again Turkey Playful
At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life. Orhan Pamuk
Life Age Understanding More Most Am Mature Want Experimental Convey Less
I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual. Orhan Pamuk
Respect Care Power Rural About Individual Take Istanbul Close Any Whether Them Much
'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
Love Politics Man Woman Political Love Story Sense Think Innocence About How Wants Story Capture Museum
I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels... I keep my deep, radical things for my novels. Orhan Pamuk
Strong Radical Statements Write Like Make Want Deep Novels Keep Things
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