I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.
Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.
While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.
Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are good things too.
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
When I'm writing, I don't read much crime at all - you don't want to get distracted by other people's plots.
I've realized that I will probably write about teenagers and that time in people's lives - I'll probably come back to it a lot.
When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.
When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day. At those times, it's as though I'm writing a letter to someone I'm desperately in love with.
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
