I came across this interview after reading Benim Adım Kırmızı (My Name Is Red). Pamuk explains that he would visit The Met every Friday and Saturday evening to study Persian miniature paintings, which are central to the novel.
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Shimmering images in Didion’s mind
I’m reading Joan Didion’s essay “Why I Write” in her book Let Me Tell You What I Mean. She describes how certain images get stuck in her head and how she weaves stories around them. She describes these as images …
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Writing is like painting, and some more
I watched an Orhan Pamuk interview on YouTube where he explains his “painterly practice” and how writing and painting are similar to him. Pamuk explains: I think writing novels is also like painting—visual …