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Book Quotes by Umberto Eco
- Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.
- There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards…
- The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better…
- A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the…
- As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
- I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give…
- I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
- If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.
- The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
- To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even…
- The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their…
- After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of…
- Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These…
- 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…
- My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of…
- 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…
- We live for books.
- Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells…
- Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says…
- Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books…
- I love the smell of book ink in the morning.
- We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the…
- libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's…
- A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of…
- We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
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- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood