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Orhan Pamuk Quotes

- Novelist | June 7, 1952 -

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.

Nature Child People Me Voice Look

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.

Power Respect Care Individual Rural

We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.

Love Unhappy Fall More Deeply

'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.

Love Politics Woman Man Story Think

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.

People Remember Long Will Pass Text

I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels... I keep my deep, radical things for my novels.

Deep Strong Want Write Things Keep

I write a world where everyone is partly right.

World Write Right Everyone Where

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

Live Singing Present Someone Paint

Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.

Life Daily Man Daily Life People

Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person singular because I have to imitate accurately the voice of someone who is not like me. The third-person singular gives me an authority over a character.

Character People Me Voice Political

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

Enjoy Always Characters First-Person

I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in the end are based on the human capacity, compassion, and I can show more compassion to my characters if I write in a first person singular.

Art Best Compassion Writing Believe

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