Quotes by Eco, Umberto

There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for >>

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays >>

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the dev >>

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the s >>

The book you don't read won't help. >>

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.

Eco, Umberto