Orhan Pamuk Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Inspirational, Reading, Book

  Orhan Pamuk (2014). “The New Life”, p.6, Macmillan

• A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, 'Go on then, read what the letter tells you!' whereas the dull-witted will say, 'Go on then, read what he's written!

  Orhan Pamuk

  Book, Intelligent, Touching

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.44, Faber & Faber

• Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Book, Musical, Different

  FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from Feb 12, 2012

• Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Mistake, Book, Sorrow

  Orhan Pamuk (2002). “My Name is Red”, Vintage

• I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so hard, didn't drink, didn't enjoy life.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Book, Hard Work, Commitment

• Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Book, Devil, Firsts

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.430, Faber & Faber

• Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Book, Thinking, Way

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.388, Faber & Faber

• To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?

  Orhan Pamuk

  Real, Book, Fantasy

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist: Understanding What Happens When We Write and Read Novels”, p.21, Faber & Faber

• 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 Wildes books in a bookshop makes me smile.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Sarcastic, Book, Cynical

• In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it has been felt by the majority of the world's population from Turkey to China. These are the amazing stories of the grandfathers of today's angry Asians. Excellent!

  Orhan Pamuk

  Book, Turkeys, Long

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

  Orhan Pamuk

  Believe, Book, Writing

  "SPIEGEL Interview with Orhan Pamuk 'No One Drives Me into Exile'". Interview with Dieter Bednarz and Annette Grossbongardt, www.spiegel.de. May 2, 2007.

• I'm a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can't hold - you cannot imagine a whole novel before you write it; there are limits to human memory and imagination. Lots of things come to your mind as you write a book, but again, I make a plan, chapter, know the plot.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Memories, Book, Writing

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 11, 2009.

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