I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so hard, didn't drink, didn't enjoy life.
Orhan Pamuk - Work - Commitment - Focus

If the Americans would only take all the money they have spent on this war (Iraq), and spend it like Soros has done on civil societies in these countries, then in 10 years they would have wonderful results.
Orhan Pamuk - Philanthropy - War

I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next eight novels I want to write. I feel myself pitiable, degraded on a day that I don't write.
Orhan Pamuk - Work - Commitment

Turks have a dismissive phrase: he works like a clerk. I have turned this insult around: I am proud to say that I work like a clerk.
Orhan Pamuk - Work - Optimistic

Countries without much history, or without much sad history, are more naive. But in their naivety they are realists, they can see their problems easily.
Orhan Pamuk - Problems