Books Quote by Umberto Eco

I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.

— Umberto Eco

I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

— Umberto Eco

“I wish people would think of me as a musician who writes novels, instead of a novelist who writes music on the side.”

— Anthony Burgess

As someone who writes novels that are often set in other periods of time or other ages or other landscapes, there's a certain element…

— Michael Ondaatje

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder…

— P. G. Wodehouse

I had a professor one time... He said, 'Class, you will forget almost everything I will teach you in here, so please remember this:…

— Rich Mullins

Yes it is,' said the Professor. 'Wait—' he motioned to Richard, who was about to go out again and investigate— 'let it be. It…

— Douglas Adams

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

— Daniel Kahneman

Once I had a professor say to me, "You know you have as much education as a lot of white people." I answered, "Doctor,…

— Joycelyn Elders

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

— Dave Hickey

I got an A in philosophy because I proved my professor didn't exist.

— Judy Tenuta

Consider him in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body…

— H. L. Mencken