Umberto Eco World Quotations

Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

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

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.

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.

I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that.

History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error.

There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics.

You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.

For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines -- some of which, alas, you can see also in this Siege -- I construct Aristotelian Machines, that allow anyone to see with Words...