Quotes by Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose

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Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happen — Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose
When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he — Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose
I felt like poisoning a monk. — Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose
The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text. — Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose
In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagin — Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose
Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy? — Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose
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, Postscript to the Name of the Rose
It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story situations and ha — Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose
[W]hen I put Jorge in the library I did not yet know he was the murderer. He acted on his own, so to speak. And it must — Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose
I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matt — Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose
Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books — Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose
Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the pac — Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose
I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weakness — Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose
The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, — Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose
After all, the fundamental question of philosophy (like that of psychoanalysis) is the same as the question of the detec — Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose