Orhan Pamuk Quotes

Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.

I'm a storyteller, and everyone in this family expresses themselves through writing to get through life's milestones.

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

I think without writing I would feel completely useless.

I have never sought the reason why I write.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

Writing is a very easy way for me to express myself. When I was still at school, I would write for no reason other than I wanted to write.

When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

Writing gave me a life.

Writing is a good creative outlet... it's a supplement to my music.

I thought about being an actor, and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do just to stay sane.

I have always thought of myself as a writer, only because I need things to direct, and I can't not write the things that I direct.

Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.

A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied were the spider and the novelist - their lives hanging by a thread spun out of their own guts. But in some ways I think writers of fiction are the creatures most to be envied, because who else besides the spider is allowed to take that fragile thread and weave it into a pattern? What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it to create some semblance of order.

Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.

Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.

The secret of life is in art.

My Catholic faith is my life. Any artist, if he is to be faithful to how he perceives the world and to the nature of his creative gifts, cannot divorce the two. To create is to love. To love is to create.

I have to be creative to be happy.