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...OP: [Laughs] I distribute my feelings and my perceptions of the world through all of my characters. I don’t want any of them to look too similar or different from me. In “My Name is Red”, I appear as a small boy. I am also close to the protagonists in “Snow” and “The Black Book?...
...OP: I can’t say I’m most proud of any of them, because the relationship is more complicated than that. I am very deeply involved with my books, I wrote them. They’re like a part of my body...
...OP: It’s a lot of joy and makes life easier. Doors open by themselves. You have more strength to address readers. It brings you a lot of prestige, which makes life easy...
...OP: I receive lots of mail from readers—I wouldn’t call it fan mail—and I can’t answer all of it. What about when someone in Argentina, who had written poetry all his life but nobody understood him, puts all his poems in a box and sends it to you? [Laughs] What do I do with that...
...OP: You have to see the whole thing as a general picture. There are so many Turkish writers who have suffered so much, and still continue to be afflicted by the same issues of free speech. Because I was internationally famous, my problem was visible, but what I suffered was nothing...