Orhan Pamuk Want Quotations

I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

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

I don’t like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels … I keep my deep radical things for my novels.

What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?' Be yourself,' said Ipek.

I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about 40 languages. But I don't want to politicize things by dramatizing them.

More than anything I am a novelist. But for me, an author's job is not only to create linguistically accomplished works. As an author I also want to stimulate discussion.