Umberto Eco Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

  Umberto Eco

  Inspirational, Funny, War

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.

  Umberto Eco

  Reading, Mean, Games

  "Six Walks in the Fictional Woods". Book by Umberto Eco, 1994.

• The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

  Umberto Eco

  Lying, Book, Reading

• 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

  Reading, Different, Poetic

  Umberto Eco (1994). “The Name of the Rose”, p.545, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity.

  Umberto Eco

  Inspiration, Reading, Exercise

• I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.

  Umberto Eco

  Morning, Reading, Paper

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

• I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  "Umberto Eco: 'People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged'". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2011.

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