I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.

Picture Quotes Maker

Top Authors

• Charles Spurgeon

  Preacher

  Thursday, Jun 19, 1834
  Sunday, Jan 31, 1892

• Sun Tzu

  Strategist

  Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
  Thursday, Jan 01, 1970

• Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States

  Wednesday, Mar 15, 1933
  

• Ernest Hemingway

  Author

  Friday, Jul 21, 1899
  Sunday, Jul 02, 1961

• Edgar Allan Poe

  Author

  Thursday, Jan 19, 1809
  Sunday, Oct 07, 1849

• Walt Whitman

  Poet

  Monday, May 31, 1819
  Saturday, Mar 26, 1892

• Mae West

  Actress

  Thursday, Aug 17, 1893
  Saturday, Nov 22, 1980

• Epictetus

  Philosopher

  
  

• Chanakya

  Teacher

  Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
  Thursday, Jan 01, 1970

• Jordan Peterson

  Psychologist

  
  

• Vince Lombardi

  Football Player

  Wednesday, Jun 11, 1913
  Thursday, Sep 03, 1970

• Aristotle

  Philosopher

  Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
  Thursday, Jan 01, 1970

• Michael Jordan

  Basketball Player

  Sunday, Feb 17, 1963
  

• Niccolo Machiavelli

  Historian

  Monday, May 03, 1469
  Tuesday, Jun 21, 1527

• Oscar Wilde

  Writer

  Monday, Oct 16, 1854
  Friday, Nov 30, 1900