• Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don’t like it.

    Umberto Eco: Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don’t like it.
    "Umberto Eco, The Art of Fiction No. 197". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.theparisreview.org. Summer 2008.