Lib Quotes
  • Authors
  • Topics
  • Lists
  • Pictures
  • Resources
  • More about Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco - Novel Quotes

4 Sourced Quotes

View all Umberto Eco Quotes
    • Source
    • Report...
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. In two months I will be eighty years old. Probably I will not write another novel, and so mankind will be safe.

Umberto Eco
    • Source
    • Report...
A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

Umberto Eco
    • Source
    • Report...
Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.

Umberto Eco
    • Source
    • Report...
I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.

Umberto Eco

Quote of the day

Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.
Barbara Jordan

Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco
Creative Commons

Born: January 5, 1932
Died: February 19, 2016 (aged 84)
More about Umberto Eco...

Featured Authors

Charles DarwinHelen KellerAlbert EinsteinGenghis KhanSøren KierkegaardHenry VIII of EnglandJean de La BruyèreKatharine HepburnVladimir LeninLudwig van BeethovenAndré GideStephen King

Lists

Predictions that didn't happen

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Picture Quotes

If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

Confucius

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Philip James Bailey

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Popular Topics

  • life
  • love
  • nature
  • time
  • god
  • power
  • human
  • mind
  • work
  • art
  • heart
  • thought
  • men
  • day
Lib Quotes

100% Sourced Quotes.

Our motto is: Don't quote it if you can't source it.

Contact us

Social Media

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • X (Twitter)
  • Pinterest

Recent

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Subscribe to our Newsletter:
Quote of the Day
JS and WordPress
Subscribe
to RSS Feeds
© 2017-2025 LibQuotes
Terms of Use / Privacy Policy / About Us

Lib Quotes