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When the poet is in love, he ...

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 love.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

Because of lies, we can produ...

Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

I like nicotine because it ex...

I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

The question of manuscript ch...

The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

Berlusconi is a genius in com...

Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

I love the secrecy of writing...

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. And it's a great sensation.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

Does the novel have to deepen...

Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

But Italy is not an intellect...

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

The most interesting letters ...

The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

Narrativity presumes a specia...

Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

The French, the Italians, the...

The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

My grandfather had a particul...

My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

I don't want to write a novel...

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 some new, urgent activity so I don't fall into the trap of starting a new novel.

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Our most noted satirists are ...

Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

There are more people than yo...

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

I was a fervent Catholic, and...

I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

There is nothing more difficu...

There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

When one starts writing a boo...

When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

I feel that I am a scholar wh...

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

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

Conspiracies do exist. Probab...

Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy three banks. But if they succeed, they are immediately discovered.

Umberto Eco 390 quotes

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