A Writer In Someone Who Spends Years

My Unhappiness Protects Me From Life.

I Need The Pain Of Loneliness To Make My Imagination Work.

It Is Not My Intention To Explain Turkey, Its Culture And Its Problems. My Literature Has A Universal Concern: I Want To Bring People And Their Emotions Closer To My Readers, Not Explain Turkish Politics.

I Don’t Like To Make Strong Statements. I Want To Write Strong Novels … I Keep My Deep Radical Things For My Novels.

People Only Tell Lies When There Is Something They Are Terribly Frightened Of Losing.