Orhan Pamuk Quotes

"Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe."
- Orhan Pamuk
(Related: Being, Dignity, Europe)

"I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west."
- Orhan Pamuk
(Related: Evil, Want)

"I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries."
- Orhan Pamuk
(Related: Being, Countries, Europe, Future, Turkey)

"I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city."
- Orhan Pamuk
(Related: People, State, Want)

"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
(Related: Value, Want)

"The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup."
- Orhan Pamuk
(Related: Challenge, Conviction)

"The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western."
- Orhan Pamuk
(Related: Experience, God)

"At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with."
- Orhan Pamuk
(Related: First, Publishing)

"There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well."
- Orhan Pamuk
(Related: Talking, Turkey)

"These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented."
- Orhan Pamuk
(Related: Society, People, Being, Feeling, Poverty)

"The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone."
- Orhan Pamuk
(Related: Power, Religion, Mistake, Control, Army, Turkey)