Turkish Writers Quotes

Since many things we see were once an idea, let us create good ideas today because they will be the realities of tomorrow! When you create an idea, do not forget that you shape the future! Idea is your God side! With ideas, you can change the universe, but only with very great ideas! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you want to do something very praiseworthy and very saintly, make a child happy! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Use the rows, otherwise you either go nowhere or you are drifted to somewhere unwanted! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The greatest gift you can leave to humanity is the beautiful trace you left behind yourself that invites people to reason, science and peace! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Nothing in this universe is able to complete its travel on the road of infinity! Because the road is very very long, travellers eventually get tired and turn into autumn leaves! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

On the Earth, you admire the Moon; on the Moon, you admire the Earth! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The stone you took away from a beach will long for that beach because it belongs there! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In a country where people are afraid of criticizing the government, many things must be going horrible! In such countries people must know that a society of cowards will always be remembered as a society of honourless people! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You must never stay at the station where you feel unhappy! Unhappiness combined with inaction always creates deeper unhappiness! The solution is very simple: Leave the station; trust the motion because only motion will take you to the new stations! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A warm dead photograph is much livelier than a living cold reality! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

May be you have already reached your target, but if you don't know this, you will move away from your target! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Where are you? In the past or in the future? It doesn't matter because if you are not in today you are in the wrong place! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Walking in a beautiful narrow street is an excellent way of discovering life with the feeling of security! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Only the exceptional paths bring exceptional glories! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A step taken to a new idea is a step taken to a new world! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Superficial cannot discover the deep, because both live in different levels and likewise the deep cannot meet the deepest! Change your level to reach at different levels! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Today's warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are many sources of happiness. Doing goodness is one of them and one of the best! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

We use horses as our slaves; we chain dogs; we steal eggs from the chickens, honey from the bees; we make wallets out of crocodiles; we imprison the birds; we torture the bulls in the arenas; we whip the lions and beat the tigers in the circuses! What are we? Definitely not ethical creatures! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For a path to be your own path you must be walking on that path! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The windows of the houses - even if the house is ramshackle - are always beautiful because windows represent light! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If somebody insists to be your enemy, you insist more to be his friend! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Don't pull people into your own storm! Let them stay safe outside your storm! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Once you take sword in your hand, you will lose your right to talk about the peace! Man of peace and love never takes the sword in his hand! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You can never be a giant if you do not challenge the powers much more powerful than you! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What is democracy? If it is the rule of the majority, ignoring the rest, then it is not good, it is very bad! But if it is the rule of the whole citizens, caring the wills of both the majority and the rest, then it is good, then it is real democracy! And the purpose of every real democracy is to be a modern country, to be a modern structure! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sadness in autumn is an autumn within autumn! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Do not hide your ignorance, because somebody might help you! Hiding always prolongs the problems. ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Looking for a saviour in the sky? Be serious! Know you still not that there ain't any saviour but science! Get rid of your cultural craps and your religious illusions! Be realist! In this universe, only the realists have the chance to save themselves! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To be remembered, umbrella waits for the rain! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

As a legacy, most world leaders leave huge amounts of money to their children and only few leave an honourable surname! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Don't let the society or your own family or anybody to kill your dreams because your dreams are yourself! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let your works not be interrupted by the stupidities happening in your own country! Work and walk on your true path ignoring any kind of distractions! Abstract yourself from all the primitivenesses surrounding you! Concentrate on your work! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Only those who spend long times with themselves can touch the depths of life! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A ship with a hole underneath is doomed to sink! And ignorance is also a hole in the brain, a big hole! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The dead will not die completely till the day they are remembered by no one! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A society which devastates its homelands' nature no more has the right to live in that territories! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Find a right and a beautiful idea; stick to it tightly and drag it strongly from your mind to the reality! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Never give up fighting against the universe because we exist in life through action, through fighting! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Soil is earth's barefoot and when we walk barefoot, two barefoot touches each other with love! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every man has a river on his mind: The River of Thoughts! But not every man has a holy river on his mind: The River of Right Thoughts! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is obvious that most people are not living the life they want to live! The easiest solution for this problem is to give up the life you want to live. And the hardest solution is this: Give up everything which prevents you to live the life you want to live! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Concentrate on the road ahead, not on the road behind! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let fascism find not even a single passage to power or else that poisonous snake will infiltrate into the every vital corner of the country and kill the future of the nation! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Solitude is not a port to drop anchor, but only a port to rest for a while! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What is a corrupted politician for a country which is like a fat fish? Just a cat, nothing but a piggish cat! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Always do the things fast in your life, because some things are coming from the future towards you; they may separate you forever from doing the things you want to do! Never forget, some things are coming from the future, be fast! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Some political leaders in the world make big mistakes but they never resign; some make a small mistake but they immediately resign! What makes a political leader to resign or not to resign has something to do with having an honour or not! Those who have honour always choose the honourable way: Resignation! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are going down with dignity, you will be admired as if you are going up! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Countries which are governed by the dabblers will undoubtedly turn into the miserable countries! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you fail, let the world knows the reasons of your failure; if you win, let the world knows the secrets of your victory! This is a great way to be useful for others! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A boat without port is free only until the storm breaks out! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A peaceful nature is the best doctor for an unpeaceful mind! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If half of a country is rotten, the other half will soon start rotting as well! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whichever point you reach in the future, that will be a miracle! If you reach tomorrow, that will be a miracle! If you reach next week or next year, that will be a miracle! Your every arrival to any point in the future time is a great victory! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

An empty street sucks your fullness; a full street fills your emptiness! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Solitude is the path to visit yourself, it is the path to yourself! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you want a forgotten corner to be remembered, a featureless place to be loved, a shadowy emptiness to shine, put some flowers there! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are two excellent challengers against darkness in this universe: Powerful lights and great ideas! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In a democratic country everything is very simple: If you choose a good government, good things will happen; if you choose a bad government, bad things will happen! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If giving up is to fail, then to hell with give up! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For a great willpower, no road has length! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whatever you have in your mind, it always carries the potential to come into existence in the world of reality! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Give me an old house full of memories and I will give you hundred novels! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is always a beautiful light around the compassionate people: The shining light of goodness! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Dear pious fellow! Our greatest hope for you is that one day you will understand that you have no enemy other than death, no port other than existence, no protector other than your own mind! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Bored with the upsetting realities of the day? Then leave yourself to the calming mysteries of the night! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Autumn leaf waits for autumn wind to reach the unreachable places; wise mind waits for silence for the same reason! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you love the life very much, you will see that everything will be shining, everything will be sparkling! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let the colours of your ideas are red so that all can easily notice them! And what is red? Red is scream, red is power, red is assertion! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The most beautiful road is the road you think it is the most beautiful road! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whatever their ideas or ideologies or religions are, always get along well with people! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The emerald life of shepherds always reminds us the romantic and humble life we have lost due to living in the cities! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are two lights in this universe: The light and the Reason! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Not how well you see in a clear weather but how well you see in a foggy weather determines how better you are than others! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You may give up your big dream and that is very hard! If necessary, give it up but then create a new one! Never live without big dreams because they will keep you alive in life! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Yes, human salvation will come through science, but only through the nature-respecting science! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What we call as burden of life is nothing but the human failure on the matter of creating a just world! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You can't expect justice from the storm, because it only knows to destroy! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Don't ever be a stupid shadow who follows perfectly his leader no matter what foolishness his leader does! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

But she was a writer, so while she did get this moment of thinking herself somewhat brilliant, it would soon be offset by a crippling doubt that she had a gift of words at all. Such is the way with all writers. Trust us. ~ Cynthia Hand

I have been an elated reader of all the great Russian novelists and short-story writers since my early twenties and I have often written about them, though I know no Russian and have never been to Russia. The lure for me (I realize now) lay in John Bayley's wonderful phrase - I believe in his learned introduction to Pushkin's Letters - that the "doors of the Russian house are wide open": we see people who speak out in the lost hours of the day as it passes through them. ~ V.S. Pritchett

(W.D.) Howells asserted that the Americans' 'love of the supernatural is their common inheritance from no particular ancestry.' Their fiction, he added, often gathers in the gray 'twilight of the reason,' on 'the borderland between experience and illusion. Howells's geographical metaphor was derived, of course, from Hawthorne's idea of a moonlit 'neutral territory, somewhere between the real world and fairy-land, where the Actual and the Imaginary may meet, and each imbue itself with the nature of the other.' Whether literally, as in Cooper's The Spy, or metaphorically, as in Hawthorne's works, the neutral territory/borderland was the familiar setting of the American romance. As American writers came to realize, not only was there a borderland between East and West, civilization and wilderness, but also between the here and the hereafter, between conscious and unconscious, 'experience and illusion' - psychic frontiers on the edge of territories both enticing and terrifying. ~ Howard Kerr

Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English. ~ Camilla Lackberg

Learning the craft as an actor in Los Angeles is a very hard thing to do, in my opinion. We all come from a certain world and when you start learning the craft, you need material to read/study that you can relate to. We do not have too many Latino writers on the West Coast that I was able to relate to (or at least, I didn't know at the time). I came from the streets, so the most published authors had no relation to my world. As soon as I picked up Pinero & Guirgis, it was all over. It was my world, just in a different location. They cracked me open inside and out. ~ Richard Cabral

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print. ~ Marguerite Yourcenar

The beauty of my body is not measured by the size of the clothes it can fit into, but by the stories that it tells. I have a belly and hips that say, "We grew a child in here," and breasts that say, "We nourished life." My hands, with bitten nails and a writer's callus, say, "We create amazing things. ~ Sarah

Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination is a response to what is going on - a sensitiveness to which outside things appeal. It is a composition of sympathy and observation. ~ Willa Cather

Writing at its foundation stone is the transmutation of personal experience into thought and weaving intricate patterns of thoughts into graphic scenes. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored. ~ Ray Bradbury

Argentina's like a novel, he said, a lie, or make-believe at best. Buenos Aires is full of crooks and loudmouths, a hellish place, with nothing to recommend it except the women, and some of the writers, but only a few. Ah, but the pampas - the pampas are eternal. A limitless cemetery, that's what they're like. ~ Roberto Bolano

The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story. ~ Dorothy Gallagher

When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers. ~ Peter Coyote

I think persistence in the face of adversity is an essential part of a writer's job description. If you don't care enough about it to avoid being easily disheartened that way, you really should be doing something else. ~ Lawrence Block

A good story is one liked. A great story is one that challenges thought, defiant and gets mouths talking. ~ Veronica Purcell

Allowing yourself to make mistakes can ultimately go beyond a writer's block. ~ Neeraj Agnihotri