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

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• Elif Safak:

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

• Elif Safak:

  Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/

• Elif Safak:

  The only way to learn writing is by writing. Talent, as charming as it sounds, amounts to no more t

• Elif Safak:

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

• Elif Safak:

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

• Elif Safak:

  We need a dose of doubt and a dose of faith, to challenge each other.

• Elif Safak:

  When I looked at people like Goya and Pina Bausch, the message I got was just do what you're passio

• Elif Safak:

  I was in Madrid as a young girl and a teenager. I'll never forget when I went to the Prado Museum f

• Elif Safak:

  There are two different ways of writing a novel. The first I call the traditional father way, when

• Elif Safak:

  It is tiring to be Turkish. The country is badly polarised, bitterly politicized. Every writer, jou