Do you want to be a writer? Follow these tips from Umberto Eco

They say that when a new project is undertaken, all help and support provided is little ... Well, what do you think if I write you the 5 tips offered by Umberto Eco in a statement for those who want and want to be writers?

Here you have them one by one, and if you want to listen to them from their own mouth below, we will put the video for you:

1. Do not think that you are "an artist".
2. Do not take yourself too seriously, that is, do not let your ego cloud you and prevent you from moving forward.
3. Do not think that everything is inspiration, it is also work. Writing takes 10% inspiration and 90% sweat.
4. Don't be in a rush to write a book. You don't have to publish a book every year, because then you lose the charm of preparing the story.
5. You cannot be a general without having been a soldier before, that is, go step by step. Do not expect to win the Nobel Prize immediately and with only one published book. These claims ruin any literary career.

Some "pearls" of the Italian writer

And if you still want to learn more from the hand of Umberto Eco, here are 10 phrases that he said at the time referring to literature in general:

• «The author should die after having written his work. To pave the way for the text.
• "Nothing consoles the novelist more than discovering readings that had not occurred to him and that the readers suggest."
• "The narrator should not provide interpretations of his work, if not, why would he have written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations?"
• "There are books that are for the public, and books that make their own public."
• "Books are respected by using them, not leaving them alone."
• "The world is full of beautiful books that nobody reads."
• “Books are those kinds of instruments that, once invented, could not be improved, simply because they are good. Like the hammer, the knife, the spoon or the scissors ».
• "Books are not made for thinking, but for being investigated."
• "The task of a novel is to teach by delighting, and what it teaches is to recognize the tricks of the world."
• "Rhetoric is the art of saying well what one is not sure is true, and poets have a duty to invent beautiful lies."