Top 117 Quotes by Umberto Eco

About Umberto Eco

These are some quotes by Italian author Umberto Eco Novelist, who lived between January 5, 1932 and February 19, 2016.

The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.

The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.

Umberto Eco

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

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

Umberto Eco

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

Umberto Eco

I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

Umberto Eco

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.

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.

Umberto Eco

We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.

Umberto Eco

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

Umberto Eco

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

Umberto Eco

Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity - instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy.

Umberto Eco

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

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

Umberto Eco

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