Change the world Quote by Umberto Eco

“I transcribe my text with no concern for timeliness. In the years when I discovered the Abbé Vallet volume, there was a widespread conviction…

— Umberto Eco

“Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the…

— Madelaine Standing

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Writing is an act of love. If it is not it is only handwriting. It consists in obeying the driving force of plants and…

— Jean Cocteau

“Letters are, of course, quite special in my view, for when a reader has been sufficiently moved (or even perturbed) by a book to…

— Chinua Achebe

“The difference between wanting to write and having written is one year of hard, relentless labour. It's a bridge you have to build all…

— Shatrujeet Nath

“We do need to bring to our writing, over and over again, all the abundance we possess. To be able, to be ready, to…

— Eudora Welty

“There is only so much revealing one can do. For every self-revelation, there has to be a self-concealment. A life-long commitment to writing involves…

— Susan Sontag

“I live in a world in which 40 men control wealth equal to that of nearly 80 countries, where to maintain their hegemony, countless…

— Cecile Pineda

“Write about the experiences that made you feel human. And whatever happens, please do continue to live and write. The people of your own…

— Kat Lowe

“No, writing has not changed me for the better at all; I have merely used up part of my restless, conscienceless youth. What value…

— Italo Calvino

“As you no doubt gathered, I do not devote the care to word selection and organization in my letters that I do in my…

— Janet Malcolm