# Quote — Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

> Suddenly, it seemed to me that the entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising our memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room.

- Author: [Orhan Pamuk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk.md)
- Book: [My Name Is Red](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk/my-name-is-red.md)
- Page: 407
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orhan_Pamuk#My_Name_Is_Red_(1998)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk/my-name-is-red/suddenly-it-seemed

## More from this book

> Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil.

p. 353 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk/my-name-is-red/let-me-first.md)

> A letter doesn’t communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, “Go on then, read what the letter tells you!” whereas the dullwitted will say, “Go on then, read what he’s written!”

p. 37 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk/my-name-is-red/a-letter-doesnt.md)

> I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.

p. 3 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk/my-name-is-red/i-am-nothing.md)