Umberto Eco, Postscript To The Name Of The Rose

Quotes

• “Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happen...”
• “When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he...”
• “Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books...”
• “The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.”
• “I felt like poisoning a monk.”