Italian - Novelist | January 5, 1932 - February 19, 2016
The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
Umberto Eco
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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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Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
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To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.
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A secret is powerful when it is empty.
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Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.
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Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose.
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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.
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