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Stories Quotes by Umberto Eco
- I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and…
- In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie…
- But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of…
- All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me,…
- To survive, you must tell stories.
- To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen…
- At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.
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