Orhan Pamuk Quotes

I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.

Orhan Pamuk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: June 7, 1952

Topics

StoryFeelingMoreRealThrough

I am in no way a confident person - except when it comes to what I'm writing. It's just like, this is what I can do, and I have what I think is a pretty strong voice, for better or worse. It's the style I like to write in.

Megan Amram

StyleI AmWritingThinkBetter

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

Tom Robbins

ImpossibleThoughtAchieveMust

I always had an interest in seeing people within their environments.

Roger Deakins

PeopleSeeingAlwaysWithinInterest

Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.

Robin Gibb

MusicBigBeingKaraokeMachine

Sometimes the problem is not the people in the band, but the people around the band.

Roger Andrew Taylor

PeopleProblemSometimesBandAround

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters - two beautiful, intelligent black young women - playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

Michelle Obama

WomenMorningBeautifulWomanBlack

Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.

Michael Moore

EducationBestChildParentI Can

I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.

Douglas Coupland

ArtBrainWritingFurnitureToo Much

I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles.

Corazon Aquino

PositiveI AmBelieveYouMiracles

I have marvelous dreams! I meet Buddha, I meet Jesus, I meet Mohammed. I constantly dream of space, stars and planets: we are the children of stardust.

Brian Blessed

StarsDreamsChildrenSpaceDream

There's not enough competition and innovation in healthcare.

Anne Wojcicki

InnovationCompetitionHealthcare

Unless a design is infused with a personality - and by that, I mean mine or someone else who really understands what design is all about - it will never, ever have any mystery.

Anouska Hempel

PersonalityDesignSomeoneMystery

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