It is by reading novels, stories, and myths that we come to understand the ideas that govern the world in which we live; it is fiction that gives us access
to the truths kept veiled by our families, our schools, and our society; it is the art of the novel that allows us to ask who we really are.
Orhan Pamuk (1952- ),
_Other Colors: Essays and a Story_ [2007], "In Kars And Frankfurt"
