It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers. Umberto Eco More Quotes by Umberto Eco More Quotes From Umberto Eco The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other. Umberto Eco killing-each-other century killing Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious. Umberto Eco scientist discipline today Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world. Umberto Eco produce lying world Beauty is boring because it is predictable. Umberto Eco predictable boring I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies. Umberto Eco black-and-white educational years I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience. Umberto Eco writing book thinking It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things. Umberto Eco easy want people As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa. Umberto Eco fantasy-novels comic book It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad. Umberto Eco differences roots people Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian. Umberto Eco capitalist creativity 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 entering mountain pace Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame. Umberto Eco blame real dream We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. Umberto Eco discouraging humiliating limits People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged. Umberto Eco tired simple people Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned. Umberto Eco occult followers believe 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 writing years fall Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that. Umberto Eco again-and-again people Our most noted satirists are true columnists and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented exposé. Umberto Eco columnists wells opinion One can be a great poet and be politically stupid. Umberto Eco great-poet poet stupid The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature. Umberto Eco psychology important criticism
