Umberto Eco Quotes

I never started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell, and I wanted to work with people that I respected and liked.

I never get sick of writing my own stories because there's a certain comfort in knowing you will never run out of material. It's relaxing, actually, to write.

I like writing my own stuff. If a book came along I would maybe do that.

I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.

Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?

You have to write the book that wants to be written.

...I can write my own stories and I can write myself in.

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

I prefer writing originals.

I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

I don't ever want to impose something on the story. I want the story to tell me.

I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things.

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

I write just knowing that I enjoy writing. But if I have to write, it seems like nothing comes. But when I go there for my own pleasure, the Lord might just give me loads of stuff all at once.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'

I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of truths than literal truths.

Writing has never been a driving force within me.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded.