Quote

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.

Orhan Pamuk

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Orhan Pamuk
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 7
Academic
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
İstanbul
Pamuk
Ferit Orhan Pamuk
Words
Examine
Might
Thieves
Trying
Colors
Like
Catch
People
Discover
Footprints
Choice
Attentive
Color
Footprint
Choices
Thief

More quotes by Orhan Pamuk

Image
Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes it's like an impulse.
Orhan Pamuk
Image
What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.
Orhan Pamuk
Image
It's very gratifying to me to see my works bringing people closer to my country.
Orhan Pamuk
Image
Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.
Orhan Pamuk
Image
Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents
Orhan Pamuk
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.
Orhan Pamuk
Image
Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.
Orhan Pamuk
Image
With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.
Orhan Pamuk
Image
Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.
Orhan Pamuk
Image
We live but for a short time, we see but very little, and we know almost nothing so, at least, let's do some dreaming. Have yourself a very good Sunday, my dear readers.
Orhan Pamuk
Image
I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
Orhan Pamuk
Image
In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty.
Orhan Pamuk
Image
It was in Cihangir that i first learned Istanbul was not an anonymous multitude of walled-in lives - a jungle of apartments where no one knew who was dead or who was celebrating what - but an archipelago of neighbourhoods in which everyone knew each other.
Orhan Pamuk
Image
Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it is said always to do. I began each day with the hope that the next day would be better, my recollections a little less pointed, but I would awake to the same pain, as if a black lamp were burning eternally inside me, radiating darkness.
Orhan Pamuk
Image
When we lose people we love, we should never disturb their souls, whether living or dead. Instead. we should find consolation in an object that reminds you of them, something...I don't know...even an earring
Orhan Pamuk
Image
Of course in Turkey I'm seen as being on the 'Western' side, criticised by the nationalists, criticised by the communitarians as not belonging. Even, sometimes, criticised for looking at my country through Western eyes. And in the Western media I'm portrayed as belonging to the East.
Orhan Pamuk
Image
As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them
Orhan Pamuk
Image
I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
Orhan Pamuk