Quotes by : Orhan Pamuk

If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments....

When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my....

I don't want to be a tree I want to be its meaning.

Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic,....

After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with....

Because, as I would always tell myself so many years later, lying here in my bed: You can't start out....

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without....

...when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical....

Einstein...even failed physics once, but he'd never thought of giving up school to make a living.

Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy,"....