“I consider myself Istanbul's storyteller. My subject matter is my town...” — Orhan Pamuk Quote

“I consider myself Istanbul's storyteller. My subject matter is my town. I consider it my job to explore the hidden patterns of my city's clandestine corners, its shady, mysterious places, the things I love.”

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

“'Snow' is my most popular book in the United States. But in Turkey, it was not as popular as 'My Name is Red,' or even 'The Museum of Innocence,' because the secular leaders didn't want this bourgeois Orhan trying to understand these head-scarf girls.”

“When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.”

“Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.”

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

“The fast, flowing parts, the high-speed corners, that's where a Formula One car is at its best - changes of direction, pulling high g-forces left and right.”

“Oddly, I'd been to most of the locations where I started photographing slavery many times before. I even considered some of them homes-away-from-home. But there can be dark corners in familiar places.”

“I've said many times that there only two things to write about: love and death. And when you have children, you remember that the world is full of sharp corners and dangerous things, and suddenly you have these small, soft creatures, which you love in almost painful way.”

“The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.”

“Our veterans gave everything for this great country - often serving in far-off corners of the world and returning with scars, not all of which are visible.”