It's A Great Relief For Me That

My Religion Is Complicated. Literature Is My True Religion. After All, I Come From A Completely Non-religious Family.

I Don't Want To Be A Tree; I Want To Be Its Meaning.

When Turkey Began Approaching The Eu, I Wasn't The Only One Who Worried That The Dark Stain In Turkey's History - Or Rather The History Of The Ottoman Empire - Could Become A Problem One Day. In Other Words, What Happened To The Armenians In World War I. That's Why I Couldn't Leave The Issue Untouched.

I Am A Highly Disciplined Person. I Get Up At Seven Every Morning And, Still In My Pajamas, Sit Down At My Desk Where My Checkered Ring Binders And My Fountain Pen Are Ready For Use. I Try To Write Two Pages Every Day.

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.