Orhan Pamuk Quotes - Serious, Inspiring, Interesting, Entertaining, Exemplary Thoughts of Nobel Prize Winning Turkish Novelist, Screenwriter, Academician

Ferit Orhan Pamuk was born on 7 June 1952 in Istanbul, Turkey. Pamuk is a world-renowned Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academician and the 2006 Nobel Prize winner in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, Pamuk has sold over 13 million books in 63 languages ​​making him Turkey's best-selling author. Pamuk's novels include Silent House, The White Castle, The Black Book, The New Life, My Name is Red and Snow. He was the Robert Yick-Fong Tam Professor in Humanities at Columbia University where he taught writing and comparative literature. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018. Born in Istanbul of partial Circassian descent, Pamuk is the first Turkish Nobel Prize winner. Pamuk's My Name Is Red received the 2002 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, the 2002 Premio Grinzane Cavour and the 2003 International Dublin Literary Award.

The European Writers' Parliament was a joint effort by Pamuk and José Saramago. Pamuk's willingness to write books about controversial historical and political events put him at risk in his homeland. In 2005 a lawyer sued him over a statement acknowledging the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire. Pamuk said his intention was to highlight freedom of expression issues in Turkey. The court initially refused to hear the case, but in 2011 Pamuk was ordered to pay 6,000 lira in compensation for insulting the plaintiff's honor. Pamuk's international fame grew after he published Benim Adirim Kırmızı (My Name Is Red) in 1998. The novel blends mystery, romance and philosophical puzzles against the backdrop of 16th-century Istanbul. It opens a window into the reign of Ottoman Sultan Murat III over nine snowy winter days in 1591, inviting the reader to experience the tension between East and West from a breathlessly immediate perspective.

My Name Is Red has been translated into 24 languages ​​and in 2003 it won the International Dublin Literary Award, one of the world's most lucrative literary prizes. When asked how winning the award ($127,000) affected his life and work, Pamuk replied, I have spent the last 10 years with everybody expecting to hear how I spend money, which I would rather not do. In a conversation with Carol Baker in the Brooklyn Rail about empathetic characterization in political fiction, Pamuk said, I feel strongly that the art of the novel is based on the human capacity, albeit a limited one, to be able to identify with the other. Only human beings can do that. It requires imagination, a kind of morality, a soulful goal of understanding this person who is different from us, which is a rarity.

Pamuk published a travelogue Istanbul-Hatırlar ve Shehir (In English Istanbul-Memories and the City, 2005) in 2003. Pamuk's Other Colours a collection of non-fiction and story was published in Britain in September 2007. When asked how personal his book Istanbul Memories and the City was, Pamuk replied, I thought I would write Memories and the City in six months, but it took me a year to finish it. And I was working twelve hours a day, just reading and working. My life, because of so many things, was in crisis, I don't want to go into those details, divorce, father's death, professional problems, this problem, that problem, everything was bad. I felt that if I was weak I would get depression. But I would get up every day and take a cold shower and sit down and remember and write, always focusing on the beauty of the book. To be honest, I would have hurt my mother, my family. My father was dead, but my mother is still alive. But I can't care about that, I must care about the beauty of the book. Pamuk's books are characterized by confusion or loss of identity due to the conflict between Western and Eastern values. They are often disturbing or unsettling, and they include complex plots and characters. His works are also full of discussion of, and fascination with, the creative arts, such as literature and painting. Pamuk's work touches on deep tensions between East and West and tradition and modernity and secularism. Pamuk talks about the messenger of inspiration when discussing his creativity: I am simply listening to an inner music, the secret of which I do not fully know. And I don't even want to know, I am most surprised by those moments when it seems to me that the sentences, dreams and pages that have given me so much joy have not come from my own imagination, that some other power has found them and generously presented them to me. Here are Orhan Pamuk's serious, inspiring, interesting, entertaining, exemplary thoughts

Real museums are places where time is transformed into space.

After all, a woman who does not love cats can never make a man happy.

The beauty and mystery of this world are only revealed to the eyes of a man through love and love.

The beauty and mystery of this world emerge only through affection, attention, interest and compassion.

Open your eyes wide and really look at this world by paying attention to its colors, details and ironies.

Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and the purpose of life is to be happy, my father said as he looked at the three beauties. But it seems that only fools are always happy. How can we explain this?

When you love a city and explore it often on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, gets to know the streets so well after many years that in a period of melancholy, perhaps even a light snowfall, you will find your feet automatically leading you to one of your favorite provinces.

People only lie when there is something they are very afraid of losing.

No matter how much I live, I will not imitate them or hate myself for being different from them

Sometimes I felt that the books I read one after another were creating some kind of hum among themselves, turning my mind into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments are playing, and I realize that I can only endure this life because of these musics playing in my mind.

When we lose our loved ones, we should never disturb their souls, whether they are alive or dead. Instead, we should find solace in an object that reminds you of them, something... I don't know... even an earring.

It may not happen at first, but within ten minutes of meeting a man, a woman has a clear idea of ​​who he is, or at least who he can be to her, and her heart has already told her whether she is going to love him or not.

In a cruel country like ours, where human life is cheap, it is foolish to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs.

Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.

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

Happiness is to hold someone in your arms and know that you are holding the whole world.

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

How much can we know about love and pain in another's heart? How much can we understand people who have suffered deeper pain, more deprivation and more devastating disappointments than we have?

Dogs speak, but only to those who know how to listen.

So tell me then, does love make a fool or do only fools fall in love?

Painting is the silence of thoughts and the music of vision.

Books, which we take for consolation, deepen our misery.

The first thing I learned at school was that some people are fools, the second thing I learned was that some people are even worse.

Before I was born there was infinite time, and after my death, infinite time. I never thought about it before, I was living brightly between two infinities of darkness.

For if the face of a lover shines on your heart, the world is still your home.

What do you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?

A letter does not communicate just with words. A letter, like a book, can be read by smelling, touching and caressing it. In this way, intelligent people will say, so go, read what the letter tells you! While dim-witted people will say, so go, read what it has written!

Try to know who I am from my choice of words and colors, just as observant people like you check footprints to catch a thief.

No matter what anyone says, the most important thing in life is to be happy.

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