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When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.

I fell in love with words in all languages, and I read everything I could find, particularly myths and legends and histories and archeology and any novels.

I'm interested in the way language is used to navigate the world around us.

I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.

You're traveling all over the world but to be home is something special.

I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.

I've always been in love with language. My favorite book is a dictionary. I have always loved words.

I love traveling all over the world; but it's true: there's nothing like home.

I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.