Orhan Pamuk Quotes About Literature
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My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.
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...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.
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Painting taught literature to describe.
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When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.
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It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people and their emotions closer to my readers, not explain Turkish politics.
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True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level.
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Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words." From the moment he begins to use words like colors in a painting, a writer can begin to see how wondrous and surprising the world is, and he breaks the bones of language to find his own voice. For this he needs paper, a pen, and the optimism of a child looking at the world for the first time.
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