Author: Elif Safak

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English, for me, is an acquired language. I started with English at the age of 10. At the time, it was my third language.

English, for me, is an acquired language. I started with English at the age of 10. At the time, it was my third language.

- Elif Safak

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

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

- Elif Safak

Writing in another language gives me an additional freedom, an additional way of thinking. It's a challenge, but I like the challenge.

Writing in another language gives me an additional freedom, an additional way of thinking. It's a challenge, but I like the challenge.

- Elif Safak

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

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

- Elif Safak

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

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

- Elif Safak

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

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

- Elif Safak

The lack of trust in supranational entities and cosmopolitan elite creates a fertile ground for tribalist belongings and reactionary politics.

The lack of trust in supranational entities and cosmopolitan elite creates a fertile ground for tribalist belongings and reactionary politics.

- Elif Safak

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

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

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

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

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