Writer Quotes by Umberto Eco

We live for books.

— Umberto Eco

Books always speak of other books.

— Umberto Eco

I write what I write.

— Umberto Eco

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.

— Umberto Eco

“The book is like the wheel - once invented, it cannot be bettered.”

— Umberto Eco

“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to enquiry”

— Umberto Eco

If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.

— Umberto Eco

Libraries can take the place of God.

— Umberto Eco

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

— Umberto Eco

The good of a book lies in its being read.

— Umberto Eco

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

— Umberto Eco

Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating.

— Umberto Eco

“recognize the evidence through which the world speaks to us like a great book...”

— Umberto Eco

We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.

— Umberto Eco

“A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles .”

— Umberto Eco

“the book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved”

— Umberto Eco

When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

— Umberto Eco

My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth.

— Umberto Eco

Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom

— Umberto Eco

Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because…

— Umberto Eco

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves…

— Umberto Eco

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs,…

— Umberto Eco

I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological…

— Umberto Eco

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the…

— Umberto Eco

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and…

— Umberto Eco

libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about…

— Umberto Eco

My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was…

— Umberto Eco

“There, I said to myself, are the reasons for the silence and darkness that surround the library: it is the preserve of…

— Umberto Eco

You must overcome any shyness and have a conversation with the librarian, because he can offer you reliable advice that will save…

— Umberto Eco

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening,…

— Umberto Eco

“...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. If for a…

— Umberto Eco

“True,' I said, amazed. Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or devine, that lie outside books.…

— Umberto Eco

“Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that…

— Umberto Eco

“But I must hope that books possess a life of a more varied kind than their authors' myopia concedes to them. A…

— Umberto Eco

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

— Umberto Eco

To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on…

— Umberto Eco

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

— Umberto Eco

I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison…

— Umberto Eco

The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.

— Umberto Eco

I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to…

— Umberto Eco