Quote

I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

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
Evil
Often
Done
Really
Way
Islamists
Portray
West
Simply

More quotes by Orhan Pamuk

Image
I certainly see myself more as a craftsman than as an artist.
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
Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.
Orhan Pamuk
Image
After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.
Orhan Pamuk
Image
Snow reminds Ka of God! But I’m not sure it would be accurate. What brings me close to God is the silence of snow.
Orhan Pamuk
Image
East and West are coming together. Whether in peace or anarchy - they are coming together. There needn't be a clash between East and West, between Islam and Europe.
Orhan Pamuk
Image
The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.
Orhan Pamuk
Image
It's a great relief for me that no one will ask me anymore: Orhan, when will you get the Nobel Prize?
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 read a book one day and my whole life was changed.
Orhan Pamuk
Image
We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction
Orhan Pamuk
Image
Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.
Orhan Pamuk
Image
Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.
Orhan Pamuk
Image
...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 change its gestures.
Orhan Pamuk
Image
If Turkey become a member of the EU, of course Turks would lose a part of this identity, just as Europe would lose a part of its own. It would also be a different Europe then. Accepting Turkey into the EU is an ambitious political endeavor of historical proportions. Europe would become a strong, multi-religious unit.
Orhan Pamuk
Image
When Turkey began approaching the EU, I wasn't the only one who worried that the dark stain in Turkey's history - or rather the history of the Ottoman Empire - could become a problem one day. In other words, what happened to the Armenians in World War I. That's why I couldn't leave the issue untouched.
Orhan Pamuk
Image
I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.
Orhan Pamuk
Image
The real choice we have to make is between peace and nationalism.
Orhan Pamuk
Image
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
Orhan Pamuk
Image
Istanbul is certainly in the process of transforming itself into an attractive cultural, tourist and financial center. But there are also millions of sad stories in this giant sea of immigration, poverty, misery and contradictions. So much anger, frustration and fury.
Orhan Pamuk