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Write Quotes by Umberto Eco
- There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.
- Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating.
- I write what I write.
- Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is…
- When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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,…
- All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.
- At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.
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