Books Quote by Umberto Eco

“Men die when they are finished living...”

— Ben Jones

I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.

— Siegfried Sassoon

I do believe the world is a pretty sad, troubled, and violent place. Maybe that's why I focus on the trouble. Even though there…

— Donald Ray Pollock

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring…

— Stephen Leacock

“I’m writing a book, one letter at a time. After thirteen days, I just finished writing “Once upon a time.” Since it’s a fairy…

— Jarod Kintz

“Be expectant...God is not finished writing your story!”

— Joy Marino

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

— Ray Bradbury

I do not read the works of Salman Rushdie, I write them. By the time I have finished writing them all I can think…

— Salman Rushdie

“This is just the present chapter of my life. How can I give up when God isn't finished writing my story yet?”

— Deb Brammer

“And this is more or less all that I had left after the holidays. Nothing really; hopeless confusion, a narrative without a possible conclusion,…

— Juan Carlos Onetti

I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what it's about…

— Wallace Shawn

I am never as clear about any matter as when I have finished writing about it.

— James Van Allen