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Type: Novelist Quotes Date of Birth: June 7, 1952 Find on Amazon: Orhan Pamuk Related Authors: Aldous Huxley Honore de Balzac E. M. Forster Ernest Hemingway Samuel Richardson Charles Dickens Gustave Flaubert Will Thomas |
At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
Orhan Pamuk At some point they figured out that you can win elections with a pro-European policy because the voters hope this will improve their lives. Orhan Pamuk I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west. Orhan Pamuk I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries. Orhan Pamuk I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city. Orhan Pamuk 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 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 The first edition was 100,000 copies, a huge economic risk for the publisher. I was quite proud of the fact that the book was not banned or censored. Orhan Pamuk The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western. Orhan Pamuk The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation. Orhan Pamuk 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 There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well. Orhan Pamuk 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 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 |
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