Quotes on Turkey

Don't make a big to-do about the turkey; brine it, put it in the oven, and don't think about it again.

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

If you are a writer from Turkey, Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt, you don't have the luxury of being apolitical. You can't say, 'That's politics. I'm just doing my work.'