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If there is no love between the author and the story, there is no love between the reader and the story.

~Elif Safak

Topics: Author Between Love No Love Reader Story

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Politicians and leaders who see the media as 'the enemy within' divide society into two clashing cultural camps. Populist demagogues benefit from binary oppositions.

~Elif Safak

Topics: Benefit Binary Camps Cultural Divide Enemy Leaders Media Politicians Populist See Society Two Who Within

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When societies go backwards and slide into authoritarianism, nationalism, and tribalism, machismo and sexism are also emboldened.

~Elif Safak

Topics: Also Backwards Go Nationalism Sexism Slide Societies

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I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.

~Elif Safak

Topics: Between Cities Commuting Cultures Just Languages Like Love I Love

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We need a dose of doubt and a dose of faith, to challenge each other.

~Elif Safak

Topics: Challenge Dose Doubt Each Faith Need Other

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My readers are surprisingly mixed. I have conservative readers - for instance, women with headscarves - but also many liberal, leftist, feminist, nihilist, environmentalist, and secularist readers. Next to those are mystics, agnostics, Kurds, Turks, Alevis, Sunnis, gays, housewives, and businesswomen.

~Elif Safak

Topics: Agnostic Also Conservative Environmentalist Feminist Gays Housewives Instance Kurds Leftist Liberal Many Mixed Next Readers Surprisingly Those Turks Women

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I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.

~Elif Safak

Topics: Childhood Entire Observing People Spent Still

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Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me. Books saved me. So, I do believe through stories we can learn to change, we can learn to empathize and be more connected with the universe and with humanity.

~Elif Safak

Topics: Because Believe Books Change Connected Empathize Happened Humanity Know Learn Me More Save Saved Stories Through Universe Us

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I write with humour about sadness, to introduce an element of sweet to the sour, a bit like Turkish food.

~Elif Safak

Topics: About Bit Element Food Humour Introduce Like Sadness Sour Sweet Turkish Write I Write

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I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me.

~Elif Safak

Topics: Above Chaotic Characters Control Demand Drunk Intuition Like Little Me Myself Other Over Placing Process Pulling Puppeteer Rather Resist Scary Story Strings Than Were Which Words Write I Write

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Biography

Nationality: Turkish

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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