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Orhan Pamuk Quotes

- Novelist | June 7, 1952 -

There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.

Talking Everyone Well Clear Been

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.

People Society Political Poverty

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

Process Poor Always Imitation Tried

Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.

Dignity Hand Need Defend Europe

At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

You First Familiar Publishing Form

I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

People City Want State Describe

Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.

Positive Failure Good History World

'Snow' is my most popular book in the United States. But in Turkey, it was not as popular as 'My Name is Red,' or even 'The Museum of Innocence,' because the secular leaders didn't want this bourgeois Orhan trying to understand these head-scarf girls.

Snow Red Book Name Innocence Trying

I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.

Stupid Speak Feel Questions Bad

I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.

Political More Been Books Interviews

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.

Generation New First Away Because

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.

Imagination Sleep Me Partner Thought

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