Orhan Pamuk Quotes

Writing is my form of celebration and prayer.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

The world of fashion and fine arts in New York really took me by surprise, and photography has helped me through a period of personal turmoil. I am glad when people like my portfolio, but its aim is - or was - to keep me at peace.

My sketchbook became everything to me.

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

If I don't stay creative and if I don't stay in the studio and keep writing and recording, I get kind of depressed. I can't quite remember what I'm supposed to be doing with myself.

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.

One of the difficulties of being a writer must be that you create drama that you can't live out. That's one of the wonderful things about acting.

When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for things—as opposed to making things up—that did not quite happen.

I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.

I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.

I find it painful when I'm without anything. But I work in multiple fields. If I can't write, I find myself taking photographs. I can go on the road and perform. But the most important thing for me is writing, and when I hit those walls, it's painful.

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is a market for it or not! The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. I would tell all of you watching this screen: Before you go to bed, write a four line poem. Make it as good as you can. Don't show it to anybody. Put it where nobody will find it. And you will discover that you have your reward.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

My parents offered me my first camera for my birthday and I developed an exclusive passion for it over the years. Since I was not the most social kid on the block, the camera helped me to express myself, invent my own language - something like a secret garden. I decided early on I would not write in a diary but take silent photographs instead.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write. But at times I have told myself that I don't necessarily have to publish anything else.

When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

I don't write as many songs as I used to. But, I find myself writing for social media more - times have changed. And I love photography, so a lot of my creative energy gets caught up that way.

The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.

Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.

I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct.

I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.

But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.