someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is... Amid his shadows, he builds a new world with words... To write is to transform that inward gaze into words, to study the worlds into which we pass when we retire into ourselves, and to do so with patience, obstinacy, and joy."

-- Orhan Pamuk's 2006 Nobel Lecture: My Father's Suitcase