Tarık Günersel

Tarık Günersel (27 June 1953 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish aphorist, poet, playwright, and translator. He has served on the board of PEN International and as president PEN Turkey.

Oluşmak (To Become) Aphorisms (Pan Publishing House, Istanbul, 2011)

 * Life is words in action, literature is action in words.
 * Enter Love, exit Theory of Love.
 * Is sincerity a virtue by itself? A serial killer has also acted sincerely.
 * The art of dying is part of the art of living.
 * Sociology: A branch of primatology.
 * If only procrastination could be postponed!
 * One who doesn’t know law thinks one lives in a jungle. One who knows law knows one lives in a jungle.
 * Alexandre the Great was unable to untie the Gordion Knot. He simply cut it.
 * You summarise your struggle for 20 years in 20 minutes and your child will remember 2 sentences, which is good.
 * If life were enough for vitality, there would be no art.
 * I am finally ready for the world. I hope it’s ready for me.
 * An apprentice is a master in dreams. A master is an apprentice even in dreams.
 * To Become.

Other

 * The process of creative discovery is endless. That’s why “holiness” tends to limit mental vitality and progress by freezing a given work (a life guide) in time, no matter how interpretations differ and even change over the years.
 * "A Conversation with Tarık Günersel -by Dawn Kotapish “ in ''World Literature Today (Jan-Feb 2011).
 * I write worstsellers. I guess most of my readers are themselves writers. Myself, for example.
 * "Same interview.
 * “The child is naked!” said the King. “Which one isn’t?” asked a mother, “Except your own children!”
 * ””A nano-story in the mosaic of poems and stories Labirentin Kabusu (The Nightmare of a Labyrinth) published by Bencekitap in Ankara, 2012.”