Umberto Eco Quotes

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 like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.
Umberto Eco

Time, Care, Two

How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.
Umberto Eco

Person, Enough, Looking

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
Umberto Eco

Passion, Same, Middle

I write what I write.
Umberto Eco

It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
Umberto Eco

Down, Difficult, Attention

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.
Umberto Eco

Father, Accountant

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

Life, Important, Him

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
Umberto Eco

Fear, Courage, Nothing

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
Umberto Eco

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
Umberto Eco

Humor, Feeling, Perception

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

Understand, Wanted, Picture

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

Experience, Past, Reflect

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.
Umberto Eco

Great, Find, Less

We like lists because we don't want to die.
Umberto Eco

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.
Umberto Eco

Culture, Infinity

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
Umberto Eco

Community, Resentment, Writers

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Nationality: Italian

Born: January 5, 1932

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