Umberto Eco Quotes

A book is a book is a book.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

The written word is everything.

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

It's interesting how powerful, in fact, the printed page still is.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.

Literature is the immortality of speech.

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.

It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

Nothing was more valuable than the printed word.

I think the book business is really sitting on the greatest moment in the history of time. We are providing the stories to the hungry public. We have more avenues to do it than ever before.

I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to reflect, you have time to choose your words, to get your sentences exactly right. Whereas when you're being interviewed, say, you have to talk on the fly, you have to improvise, you can change sentences around, and they're not exactly right.

I like books that are fat and full.

The biggest invention of modern time is the book. The book is a digital medium; book text is written in a different form and replicable. What it really does is it allows us to replicate cultural information, scientific technology, and information out of the human brain.