How To Win The Nobel

"For 30 years I've spent an average of 10 hours a day alone in a room, sitting at my desk. If you count only the work that is good enough to be published, my daily average is a good deal less than half a page a day. Most of what I write does not meet my own standards of 'goodness'. These are two large sources of misery. "

- Orhan Pamuk on writing novels