I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter like the story told by Genesis we all have to choose our role models as Woody Allen puts it.
Umberto Eco
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As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
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Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.
- Umberto Eco