The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
Orhan Pamuk
Top 10 Best Quotes
“To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?”
“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared.”
“At the heart of the novelist's craft lies an optimism which thinks that the knowledge we gather from our everyday experience, if given proper form, can become valuable knowledge about reality.”
“In order to find meaning and readerly pleasure in the universe the writer reveals to us, we feel we must search for the novel’s secret center, and we therefore try to embed every detail of the novel in our memory, as if learning each leaf of a tree by heart.”
“why humanity has a spiritual need for a mirror (a custom-built mirror!) such as the novel.”
“the place we return to is never the same place we left.”
“To give charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind’s attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and wonders of the world before us.”
“To derive pleasure from a novel is to enjoy the act of departing from words and transforming these things into images in our mind.”
“Because Anna Karenina could not read the novel she held in her hands, we read Anna Karenina the novel.”
“ekphrasis is the description of visual artworks (such as paintings and sculptures) through the medium of poetry, for the benefit of those who cannot see them.”
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