Less is More
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"İn Turkish and many other languages one does not often come across a story teller who by using such few words can express the essence of a thought so effectively. With İlyas Halil there can be no question of rambling , long explanations , pretence or artificiality , no unnecessary ostentation. He has given such importance to the purity of the words that he stays away from imitation. He is a writer who does not know what babbling is."

Talat S. Halman