Umberto Ecco

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

“To survive, you must tell stories.”
― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

“I love the smell of book ink in the morning.”
― Umberto Eco

“Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.”
― Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose