Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs..

As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body..

There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god..

A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is..

She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new infl….

I don't read newspapers in the morning. I take a look at the dailies in the afternoon, but only when I've finished my work for the day. Reading about….

I believe that it isn't victories but defeats that promote nationalism..

I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books..

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

No one drives me into exile, not even the nationalists..

In the mornings I used to say goodbye to my wife like someone going to work. I'd leave the house, walk around a few blocks, and come back like a pers….

Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief..

The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse..

...the endless repetition of an ordinary miracle..

People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing..

Nothing changed in my life since I work all the time," Pamuk said then. "I've spent 30 years writing fiction. For the first 10 years I worried about ….

Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?.

How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greate….

If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becom….

...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to cha….

I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next eight novels I want to write. I feel myself pitiable, ….