Best Umberto Eco Thoughts
- Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy three banks. But… Banks
- Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits.… Brown
- Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same.… Aeschylus
- Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise… Acquire
- History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing… Adventurous
- How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people… Describe
- I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent… Activity
- I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world.… Anybody
- I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could… Black
- If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications through inquiry and… Critical
- It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times.… Always Moved
- Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even… Affair
- My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of… Book
- My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of… Balzac
- Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high… Anglo
- The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent… All
- There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that… Book
- There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than… Among
- To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but… Badly
- We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian… Allow
- We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would… Accept
- When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me… Academic
- Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed. Flies
- It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house. Awkward
- If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your… Act
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