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Books Quotes by Umberto Eco
- Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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.
- If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.
More Books Quotes
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- 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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- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
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- If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of… — Margaret Atwood
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on… — Norman Ralph Augustine