As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa. Umberto Eco More Quotes by Umberto Eco More Quotes From Umberto Eco And we, inhabitants of the great coral of the Cosmos, believe the atom (which still we cannot see) to be full matter, whereas, it too, like everything else, is but an embroidery of voids in the Void, and we give the name of being, dense and even eternal, to that dance of inconsistencies, that infinite extension that is identified with absolute Nothingness and that spins from its own non-being the illusion of everything. Umberto Eco names giving believe In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner. Umberto Eco successful latin country When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance. Umberto Eco dance As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying. Umberto Eco want philosophy lying 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 squash flying sports American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations for purposes of genocide, whereas coffee made with an American percolator, such as you find in private houses or in humble luncheonettes, served with eggs and bacon, is delicious, fragrant, goes down like pure spring water, and afterwards causes severe palpitations, because one cup contains more caffeine than four espressos. Umberto Eco coffee humble spring I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation. Umberto Eco writing fiction world If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your History would become monotonous. But you must act with restraint. The world condemns liars who do nothing but lie, even about the most trivial things, and it rewards poets, who lie only about the greatest things. Umberto Eco liars writing lying I should be at peace. I have understood. Don't some say that peace comes when you understand? I have understood. I should be at peace. Who said that peace derives from the contemplation of order, order understood, enjoyed, realized without residuum, in joy and truimph, the end of effort? All is clear, limpid; the eye rests on the whole and on the parts and sees how the parts have conspired to make the whole; it perceives the center where the lymph flows, the breath, the root of the whys. Umberto Eco eye roots order I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. Umberto Eco poetic different reading An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original. Umberto Eco creating writing ideas The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers. Umberto Eco doctors phones tools Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths. Umberto Eco labyrinth beautiful moving Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely. Umberto Eco generations lonely lost The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us. Umberto Eco romance doors art I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it). Umberto Eco role-models roles writing There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read. Umberto Eco hours book world Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for. Umberto Eco depends backgrounds book Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene. Umberto Eco rendering succeed scene Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating. Umberto Eco paper writing mean
