Orhan Pamuk Quotes

When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption.

I think when you start talking about money, it stops the whole creative process for me.

I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.

I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom.

The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be somewhere without a view, especially if it is very different from what you're writing.

I probably write best in my office, which is an extra bedroom in my house.

I can write in my living room with my wife and kid around.

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

My favourite place to write is at my desk in my house in the mountains of Crete. I produce more there because one big distraction is missing: the Internet.

I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.

I listen to music constantly while writing.

I start a picture and I finish it.

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don't allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.