Now Everyone Is Prouder And Poorer

In A Brutal Country Like Ours, Where Human Life Is 'cheap', It's Stupid To Destroy Yourself For The Sake Of Your Beliefs. Beliefs? High Ideas? Only People In Rich Countries Can Enjoy Such Luxuries.

How Much Can We Ever Know About The Love And Pain In Another Heart? How Much Can We Hope To Understand Those Who Have Suffered Deeper Anguish, Greater Deprivation, And More Crushing Disappointments Than We Ourselves Have Known?

I'm A Relatively Disciplined Writer Who Composes The Whole Book Before Beginning To Execute And Write It. Of Course, You Can't Hold - You Cannot Imagine A Whole Novel Before You Write It; There Are Limits To Human Memory And Imagination. Lots Of Things Come To Your Mind As You Write A Book, But Again, I Make A Plan, Chapter, Know The Plot.

Novels Are Political Not Because Writers Carry Party Cards -- Some Do, I Do Not -- But Because Good Fiction Is About Identifying With And Understanding People Who Are Not Necessarily Like Us. By Nature All Good Novels Are Political Because Identifying With The Other Is Political. At The Heart Of The 'art Of The Novel' Lies The Human Capacity To See The World Through Others' Eyes. Compassion Is The Greatest Strength Of The Novelist.

The Secularists In Turkey Haven't Underestimated Religion, They Just Made The Mistake Of Believing They Could Control It With The Power Of The Army Alone.