Source: The Museum of Innocence
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Famous Orhan Pamuk Quotes
Source: The Museum of Innocence
Source: Snow
“Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.”
Source: My Name Is Red
Source: Snow
Source: The New Life
Source: The Museum of Innocence
“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
Source: My Name Is Red
“...the endless repetition of an ordinary miracle.”
Source: Snow
“Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.”
Source: Snow
“Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere”
Source: The New Life
“Let everyone know, I lived a very happy life.”
Source: The Museum of Innocence
“The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.”
Source: Snow
Source: Snow
Source: Istanbul
Source: Snow
Source: The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist: Understanding What Happens When We Write and Read Novels
Source: My Name Is Red
“Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?”
Source: My Name Is Red
“I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.”
“I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.”
“All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.”
Source: My Name Is Red
“When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.”
Source: Other Colours
“The snow reminded me of the beauty and mystery of creation, of the essential joy that is life.”
Source: Snow