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" There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well. "
Orhan Pamuk
Everyone
Clear
Well
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" I write a world where everyone is partly right. "
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Where
Everyone
Right
" To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change. "
Orhan Pamuk
Your
Change
Invention
" 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. "
Orhan Pamuk
Writing
Art
Best
" We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that. "
Orhan Pamuk
Judge
People
Some People
" 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
Writing
Beautiful
Me
" Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture. "
Orhan Pamuk
Culture
Powerful
Rich
" 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
Think
Say
Me
" 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
Busy
Society
People
" 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. "
Orhan Pamuk
Failure
Positive
History
" 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
Belong
Want
Hero
" I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular. "
Orhan Pamuk
Enjoy
First-Person
Characters
" I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write because I want to read books like the ones I write. I write because I am angry at everyone. I write because I love sitting in a room all day writing. I write because I can partake of real life only by changing it. "
Orhan Pamuk
Love
Life
Work
" The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western. "
Orhan Pamuk
Hero
Experience
God
" Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility. "
Orhan Pamuk
Someone
Fiction
You
" 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
Habit
Civilization
People
" If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me. "
Orhan Pamuk
Power
Dreams
Life
" Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey. "
Orhan Pamuk
Bad
Reviews
Turkey
" 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
Know
Understand
See
" I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city. "
Orhan Pamuk
Certain
Want
People
" If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope. "
Orhan Pamuk
Art
Hope
People
" We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy. "
Orhan Pamuk
Unhappy
Deeply
Fall
" I don't look at emails, Internet or newspapers before 1 P.M. I wake at 7 A.M., eat fruit, drink tea or coffee, and read what I've achieved, or not achieved, the previous day. Then I take a shower and work on my next sentence until 1 P.M. After I've done emails and so on, I write again from 3 P.M. until 8 P.M.; then I socialise. "
Orhan Pamuk
Fruit
Internet
Coffee
" The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience. "
Orhan Pamuk
Never
Patience
Secret
" 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
Power
Respect
Take
" The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They're all intertwined. "
Orhan Pamuk
Culture
Imagination
Construction
" I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there. "
Orhan Pamuk
Books
Political
More
" 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
Partner
Imagination
Thought
" Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but deeply compassionate. Just seeing the cover of one of Wilde's books in a bookshop makes me smile. "
Orhan Pamuk
Smile
Prove
Respect
" 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
Place
Museum
Through
" I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries. "
Orhan Pamuk
Many
I See
Turkey