Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us a…

Umberto Eco
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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 (1994). The Name of the Rose, p.549, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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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 (1994). The Name of the Rose, p.549, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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