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For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God.

~Elif Safak

Topics: Connected Feeling God Me One Way Stories Universe Way Writing

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Bad writing is like a bad relationship. Don't be addicted to it just because you are familiar with its ways. Let go.

~Elif Safak

Topics: Addicted Bad Because Familiar Go Just Just Because Let Go Like Relationship Ways Writing You

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I was in Madrid as a young girl and a teenager. I'll never forget when I went to the Prado Museum for the first time and saw the paintings of Goya. They had such a big impact on me.

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Topics: Big Big Impact First First Time Forget Girl Had Impact Madrid Me Museum Never Never Forget Paintings Saw Teenager Time Young Young Girl

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It is tiring to be Turkish. The country is badly polarised, bitterly politicized. Every writer, journalist, poet knows that because of an article, a novel, an interview, a poem or a tweet you can be sued, put on trial, even arrested. Self-censorship is widespread.

~Elif Safak

Topics: Arrested Article Badly Because Country Even Every Interview Journalist Knows Novel Poem Poet Put Self-Censorship Sued Tiring Trial Turkish Tweet Widespread Writer You

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When I was 10 years old, we moved to Spain with my mother. I learned Spanish before I learned English. But the English language stayed with me.

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Topics: Before English English Language Language Learned Me Mother Moved Old Spain Spanish Stayed Years

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I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, independent, single mother, a divorcee.

~Elif Safak

Topics: Because Did Families Feminist Find Grow Grow Up Independent Intriguing Mother Perhaps Raised Single Single Mother Up I Was Raised

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God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other across cultural, religious and gender boundaries.

~Elif Safak

Topics: Across Biggest Boundaries Connect Create Cultural Each Gender God Him Other Religious Stories Storyteller

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Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

~Elif Safak

Topics: Choosing Fun Lonely Over Solitude Tribute Writing

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The only way to learn writing is by writing. Talent, as charming as it sounds, amounts to no more than 12 per cent of the process. Work is 80 per cent. The remaining 8 per cent is 'luck' or 'zeitgeist' - in short, things that are not in our hands.

~Elif Safak

Topics: Amount Cent Charming Hands Learn Luck More Only Our Per Process Remaining Short Sounds Talent Than Things Way Work Writing Zeitgeist

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When I looked at people like Goya and Pina Bausch, the message I got was just do what you're passionate about. Don't think about what other people are going to say or how they're going to receive your work. Just be your work.

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Topics: About Going Got How Just Just Be Like Looked Message Other Passionate People Receive Say Think Work You Your

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Biography

Nationality: Turkish

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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