To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout. Umberto Eco Read Quote
My maternal grandmother – she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac. Umberto Eco Read Quote
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 Read Quote
History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power – bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community. Umberto Eco Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious. Umberto Eco Read Quote
