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I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays

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Umberto Eco
Italian - Novelist
January 5, 1932 - February 19, 2016

I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

Umberto Eco

I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.

Umberto Eco

I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.

Victor LaValle

I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully.

Mother Teresa

How many Sundays - how many hundreds of Sundays like this - lay ahead of me? “Quiet, peaceful, and lonely,” I said aloud to myself. On Sundays, I didn't wind my spring.

Haruki Murakami

Workers should have Sundays off because Sunday is for the family. Calling for Sundays to be a holiday.

Pope Francis

Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.

Gore Vidal

I sometimes say I am the extinguished professor, because what I'd really like to be is the postdoc, to have that kind of thinking. I think one can get very set in his ways with titles like 'distinguished professor.'

Sydney Brenner

I am a professor at Stanford; I am a happy professor at Stanford. That's where I'm staying.

Condoleezza Rice

I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.

William Safire

Most Sundays, with the exception of football Sundays, I work, because I don't take days off as long as I'm working on something that's supposed to be all in the same mood.

Robert Caro

When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.

Salman Rushdie

I was promoted associate professor in early 1970 and full professor in October of the same year. I spent the two spring semesters of 1972 and 1974 as visiting professor at Harvard University, giving lectures and directing a research project.

Jean-Marie Lehn

I don't know why one author writes westerns while another writes detective novels. You don't know why. You go where the intensity is. I feel most comfortable writing about monsters. It's possible that I feel like a monster myself. Or maybe it's because we all have a monster inside of us, a vampire, a ghost, a witch or a werewolf. You do it because it works and it feels really right and authentic.

Anne Rice

A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of novels is other novels.

Teju Cole

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