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."In the book industry there is a category of people who don't understand much: publishers. They think that everybody wants to read easy books. That's untrue, or else authors like Thomas Mann would have never enjoyed any popularity." Umberto Eco, na apresentação do seu mais recente livro em Toronto.

.Parte de uma entrevista de emprego com Susan Sontag: "She had a great store of literary anecdotes. She told me about how her friend Bob Coover—that’s novelist Robert Coover to you and me—had his entire catalogue of wine stored in a database. She talked about an amusing phone call she once had her protégé Darryl Pinckney make to Djuna Barnes. She gossiped about Norman Mailer and John Updike, all of which made me feel like I wasn’t some Garden State jerk but a worldly writer.".