Umberto Eco Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• Dan Brown, is a character from Foucault's Pendulum! I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.

  Umberto Eco

  Character, Knights, Secret

  "Umberto Eco in quotes - 10 of the best". Paris Review, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2016.

• Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.

  Umberto Eco

  Hero, Character, Oedipus

  "The art of creating a legend" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2002.

• I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

  Umberto Eco

  Character, Writing, Facts

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

• Sometimes my characters are not myself.

  Umberto Eco

  Character, Sometimes

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

• I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more interesting than the winners.

  Umberto Eco

  Character, Interesting, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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