The writers secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
Orhan PamukA writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.
Orhan PamukI very much enjoy reading other writers' diaries, mainly because it makes me ask myself: Are they like you? How do they think?
Orhan PamukIt was in Cihangir that i first learned Istanbul was not an anonymous multitude of walled-in lives - a jungle of apartments where no one knew who was dead or who was celebrating what - but an archipelago of neighbourhoods in which everyone knew each other.
Orhan Pamuk