I Don’t Like To Make Strong Statements.

The Drinking Of Coffee Is An Absolute Sin! Our Glorious Prophet Did Not Partake Of Coffee Because He Knew It Dulled The Intellect, Caused Ulcers, Hernia And Sterility; He Understood That Coffee Was Nothing But The Devil's Ruse.

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.

I Am Proud To Be A Turk, And To Write In Turkish About Turkey - And To Have Been Translated Into About 40 Languages. But I Don't Want To Politicize Things By Dramatizing Them.

It Was In Cihangir That I First Learned Istanbul Was Not An Anonymous Multitude Of Walled-in Lives - A Jungle Of Apartments Where No One Knew Who Was Dead Or Who Was Celebrating What - But An Archipelago Of Neighbourhoods In Which Everyone Knew Each Other.

The Thing That Binds Us Together Is That We Have Both Lowered Our Expectations Of Life