Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk on why he writes

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Full Article here: https://gn24.ae/8de018a39f6f000 See more at https://gulfnews.com/videos  Orhan believes that for a person to write a novel, they must first have a story that they believe in or have an experience to share. And as for the secret to beautiful writing? ‘Changing and changing… and rewriting,’ says the laureate.

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00:00I write because I like the glory and interest that writing brings.

00:08I write to be alone.

00:11Perhaps I write because I hope to understand why I am so angry, angry at all of you, so

00:19very angry at everyone.

00:22I write because I like to be read.

00:26I write because once I have begun a novel or an essay, a page, I want to finish it.

00:34I write because everyone expects me to write.

00:39I write because I like, I write because I have a childish grief in the immortality of

00:47libraries and in the way my books sit on the shelf.

00:51I write because it is exciting to turn all of life's beauties and riches into words.

00:59I write not to tell a story, but to compose a story.

01:03I write because I wish to escape from the feeling that there is a place I must go to,

01:09but just as in a dream, I can't quite get there.

01:13I write because I have never managed to be happy.

01:18I write to be happy.

01:21I write because I like, I write because I have a childish grief in the immortality

01:23of libraries and in the way my books sit on the shelf.

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