To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“All the same,” I said, “when you read the prints in the snow and the evidence of the branches, you did not… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“the book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Usually the recipe for a bestseller is to give people what they want. My challenge is and was: Give them what they… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains also realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which asses fly… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“…there’s nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one’s own heart...” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what the volume… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and hits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
