Orhan Pamuk Quotes

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

I've seen firsthand how books can change people's lives. It happened to me.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I am going to live as if I were a great man.

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

It's not how many books you get through, it's how many books get through you.

When books are opened, we discover that we have wings

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

It only takes one profound experience to change somebody's life.

Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will – that is all, really, education is about, should be about.

The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that live in river water and enter the bodies of swimmers. She was excited, filled with strength. The polished sentences had arrived, it seemed, like so many other things, at just the right time. How can we imagine what our lives should be without the illumination of the lives of others?

I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.

I think books can give rise to empowerment.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

Books open windows to the world and have the power to transform lives.

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.

Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.

One choice can transform you!