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.

One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.

One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.

Umberto Eco

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Umberto Eco

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

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

Umberto Eco

Translation is the art of failure.

Translation is the art of failure.

Umberto Eco

We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.

We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.

Umberto Eco

Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

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

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

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

You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.

You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.

Umberto Eco

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