The Silence Of Snow, Thought The Man

I Sometimes Joke That I Am The First Writer Of Historical Fiction Who Can Look Out His Window And Point To The Objects In His Novels. I Have A View Of The Entrance To The Bosporus, The Old City, Hagia Sophia, The Blue Mosque.

I Don't Read Newspapers In The Morning. I Take A Look At The Dailies In The Afternoon, But Only When I've Finished My Work For The Day. Reading About What Is Happening In Turkey Once Again Would Only Be Demoralizing For Me.

Turkish Football Serves The Cause Of Nationalism, But Not Of The Nation.

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

My Hero Wants To Belong Too, But He Doesn't Want To Give Up All The Things He Came To Value In The West.