An imaginative novelist's greatest virtue is his
ability to forget the world in the way a child does,
to be irresponsible and delight in it, to play
around with the rules of the known world--but at the
same time to see past his freewheeling flights of
fancy to the deep responsibility of later allowing
readers to lose themselves in the story.
A novelist might spend the whole day playing, but at
the same time he carries the deepest conviction of
being more serious than others. This is because he
can look directly into the center of things the way
that only children can.
Orhan Pamuk (1952- )
ability to forget the world in the way a child does,
to be irresponsible and delight in it, to play
around with the rules of the known world--but at the
same time to see past his freewheeling flights of
fancy to the deep responsibility of later allowing
readers to lose themselves in the story.
A novelist might spend the whole day playing, but at
the same time he carries the deepest conviction of
being more serious than others. This is because he
can look directly into the center of things the way
that only children can.
Orhan Pamuk (1952- )
